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Cannot register using work E-Mail | E-Mail not found in @###.com
Hi moliveira
You do not need exchange or Azure or Office 365 to start it will create the Azure Active Directory for you in the background.
And when I signed up I was and still am using another email provider and it send me the confirmation emails to sign up. So just make sure that you are receiving all emails.
Thx GilbertQ. I guess that our customers that use for example GSuite form Google this is not going to work, since comercial email providers do not work.
Also I assume that with this approach if we have several people in the same organization Power BI will be smart enough and use the same Azure AD for the entire organization right? In the Pro version it's possible to share reports within that organization without Office 365 as well?
The Power BI website is not very clear on what is a work email. A lot of people use gmail for work. They should have a list of what email providers will not work.
Hi moliveira
As far as I am aware for Power BI to work and to be able to Share Dashboards it requires having Office 365 with Azure Active Directory. This is so that it can store the users credentials when they log into Power BI.The underlying Azure Active Directory is free when signing up to Power BI and gets created behind the scenes.
In terms of allowing Gmail email address into the Power BI Service, I am fairly certain that they have restricted it to gmail, hotmail, live and possibly a few other email addresses. As explained above it is due to using Azure Active Directory and no way of knowing who has to administer all the email address.
What I would suggest is to register a domain name, and then you can still use your Gmail to configure it to receive emails from your new domain. After which you can then use this new domain to sign up for Power BI.