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Fabric Licensing and Pro Licensing Requirements
Looking for some clarity around whether Pro licenses are needed for viewers of reports deployed to workspaces attached to an F2 capacity. Currently it looks like no Pro license is needed by a user to access the workspace since the workspace is considered premium.
1) Is this correct?
2) Is Microsoft now operating an honesty based approach that if we have 20 users accessing the report we need to buy 20 Pro licenses for those users?
Microsoft's own documentation on this is not clear.
Hay jwares thank you for aksing questions.
Pro license needed for viewers in F2 workspaces specially ( all Fabric SKUs smaller than F64), users still need Power BI Pro or Premium Per User (PPU) licenses to consume Power BI content. Only capacities of F64 or larger allow you to share Power BI content with free users (users without Pro licenses) inside your organization.
Referance: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/enterprise/licenses
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- Royel
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Hay jwares thank you for aksing questions.
Pro license needed for viewers in F2 workspaces specially ( all Fabric SKUs smaller than F64), users still need Power BI Pro or Premium Per User (PPU) licenses to consume Power BI content. Only capacities of F64 or larger allow you to share Power BI content with free users (users without Pro licenses) inside your organization.
Referance: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/enterprise/licenses
Find this helpful? ✔ Give a Kudo • Mark as Solution – help others too!Thanks for response. The way things were if you didn't have a Pro license you couldn't access the content. Now it seems you can access the content without the Pro license. Hence my point about is this now 'honesty' based licensing of viewers of reports. Or, maybe this is just a 'bug' in Fabric capacities under F64.
