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Ajay
Microsoft Employee
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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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
Impactful 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
    Impactful Individual
    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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    • mim's avatar
      mim
      Advocate V
      9 years ago

      djnww I hope so, anyway Google Data studio will definitely put some pressure on Microsoft. 

    • worldundermine's avatar
      worldundermine
      Advocate I
      9 years ago

      That *sounds* great, but I'm not holding my breath. I'd love to hear from someone who's actually on Product team at Microsoft. This community is great, but we're left completely in the dark in regards to comminications and support from Microsoft itself.

       

      • djnww's avatar
        djnww
        Impactful Individual
        9 years ago
        FYI to all, the new PowerBI Licensing has been released. The email sounds scary. I recommend going to the licensing page to get a proper understanding. There is pricing for PRO users and those responsible for sharing VS consumers.
  • ElsD's avatar
    ElsD
    Advocate I
    9 years ago

    I just checked and I don't have the PRO-message anymore. Anyone else?

    • djnww's avatar
      djnww
      Impactful Individual
      9 years ago

      Hi ElsD,

       

      Are you referring to the 'PRO' message for those sharing from their Personal Workspace ? If this is so then you are correct. The problem was rectified yesterday.

       

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      • ElsD's avatar
        ElsD
        Advocate I
        9 years ago

        Yes, I did. Thanks for confirming.