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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...
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    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
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.

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v-jiascu-msft
Microsoft Employee
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

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    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.

     

    • v-jiascu-msft's avatar
      v-jiascu-msft
      Microsoft Employee
      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
        Regular Visitor
        7 years ago

        Hi Dale,

        Thank you so much for your help and confirming that this is an issue only with the trial version.  So, you are confirming that assigning a regular Pro license (i.e. one that is not a trial version) to a gues user works.  That is, the guest user will be able   That is guest users will be able to install and consume an App without themselves buying a Pro license.  That is all I wanted to test for now.  We will buy Pro licenses and possibly use this strategy for guest users who do not have Power BI Pro licenses.  At this stage that is all I wanted to test.  I accept your answer as a solution.

         

        Thanks,
        Krishna Gummuluri