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Ajay's avatar
Ajay
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9 years ago

Fixes to Power BI Pro License Required Dialogs

A Power BI Pro license is required to view dashboards or reports that contain Pro content. In some cases, our enforcement of this licensing logic caused confusion about whether content was Pro or not...
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Gabistoica's avatar
Gabistoica
Regular Visitor
9 years ago

This morning, in the Share functionality of the dashboard the Power Bi Pro message appears:

"This dashboard contains Power BI Pro content. Only users that have Power BI Pro will have access to it.Learn more" 

Yesterday it was not there and also there was no changes made to the dashboard/dataset/refreshing options.

The users doesn'e seems to "feel" the consequences yet.

 

Are you aware of another changes in teh licensing?

 

 

Regards,

 

 

djnww's avatar
djnww
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9 years ago

Hi Gabistoica,

 

You are correct. This is very concerning. I am sure it must be a mistake on Microsoft's part. If sharing is suddenly Power BI PRO content, then Power BI is as good as dead.

 

Ajay, can you please confirm why, all of a sudden, sharing Power BI dashboards even on my own workspace now requires Power BI PRO ? I can guarantee you that the dashboards do not contain PRO content.

 

Update: I can confirm that this is indeed an issue. I published a simple report into My Workspace and it cannot be shared.

 

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  • MagnusJ's avatar
    MagnusJ
    Frequent Visitor
    9 years ago

    I hade the same experience today. I do not have anything in my reports or dashboards that requires PRO. But PBI-Service still claims that I have PRO-content and that the users that I share with need a PRO-license. I have re-read the licensing setup over and over and can not see that a PRO-license is required. Especially since MS claim that nothing has changed in the licensing setup.

     

    Now even tried to remove everything from service and upload it again (as this is a previous solution for a similar problem), but that does not help. Seems like all sharing is stopped for non-PRO.

     

    But, after checking with a user it seems that sharing still works.

    • djnww's avatar
      djnww
      Icon for Impactful Individual rankImpactful Individual
      9 years ago
      The sharing has stopped for non-Pro. Microsoft informed me that this should not be happening are investigating.
      • djnww's avatar
        djnww
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        9 years ago
        FYI to all,
         
        Microsoft informed me today that big changes to Power BI's licensing agreement are coming in the next few weeks which will alleviate some of the issues we have surrounding sharing of reports and dashboards that everyone is having.

        Don't quote me on this, however he hinted that there will be a distinction between PRO and regular users (ie. viewers). I am assuming regular viewers will be a lot cheaper. I'm hoping the current $10 p/m pp stays and doesn't increase either.
         
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