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kgummuluri
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7 years ago
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Assign Power BI Pro to guest users

I am currently evaluating Power BI Service and clicked on try Pro for free.  I am assuming this gives me a trial version of Power BI Pro.  I am able to push data and create reports, workspacea and pu...
  • v-jiascu-msft's avatar
    v-jiascu-msft
    7 years ago

    Hi kgummuluri,

     

    That's clear now. As far as I know, we can't assign a Pro trial to users. The users have to click "Try Pro" explicitly. The guest uses can consume the Power BI contents after clicking "Try Pro for free". Why not do that?

     

     

    Best Regards,
    Dale

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kgummuluri
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7 years ago

@i v-jiascu-msft,

Thank you for replying to the post.  I was using the link you posted.  In that link it clearly states that if I assign a pro license from my tenant to the guest user the guest user will be able to view the content.  If he guest user alaready has a pro license what is the point os assigning a pro licesne to the guest user.  I am missing something. 

 

Here is the text from the documentation -

Assign Power BI Pro license to guest user

Assigning a Power BI Pro license to the guest user, within your tenant, allows that guest user to view the content.

Note

A Power BI Pro license from your tenant applies to guest users only when they access content within your tenant

 

 

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v-jiascu-msft
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7 years ago

Hi kgummuluri,

 

It seems the guest can view the contents but the guest can't install the App. Right? If so, I have consulted the Product Team. I will update here later.

 

 

Best Regards,
Dale

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    kgummuluri
    Regular Visitor
    7 years ago

    Actually, the guest can see that there is an app they have been given access to but as soon as the guest clicks on the app to access it asks for upgrade and does not allow the user to proceed.  Since I assigned Power BI Pro license to the guest user, it shoudl have allow the guest to view the app contents just like any other Pro user.

     

    Thanks for the help.

    • v-jiascu-msft's avatar
      v-jiascu-msft
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      7 years ago

      Hi kgummuluri,

       

      It works in my test. Can you share some snapshots? Please refer to my test below.

      Assign-Power-BI-Pro-to-guest-users

       

      Best Regards,
      Dale

      • kgummuluri's avatar
        kgummuluri
        Regular Visitor
        7 years ago

        As mentioned earlier I am using the trial version of Pro.  As an admin using the trial version I am able to create and view apps.  When I assign the trial pro version to a free external user, external free user is not able to view the app without upgrading to pro.