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Free Power Bi Pro on June 1st
No, you can't limit the your organization users requesting Pro trial. And even your users are under Pro trial, they will still appear as free license in your O365 Admin Center.
Regards,
Apologies if i'm asking the obvious so will there free licences remain activated or do they have to click/sign up somewhere. Likewise as a user who creates dashboards and reports (as a free user) do I have to do anything?
Lastly what are the best options for sharing for free users moving forward? Also what do you suggest on a more ongoing basis since the free user access expires after 1 year.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Jay2077 From june 1st Free users will have the option of signing up for a 12 months free Power BI Pro trial if they had registered for Power BI free before May 2nd. They will have to register for this themselves on powerbi.com
The only way that I see for sharing with Power BI Free users after June 1st, if the organization doesn't have a Premium license, is to send or distribute the pbix files via some other mechanism than Power BI (sharepoint, onedrive, mail etc). If the organization has a premium license, sharing with Free users will be possible in the same way as today.
The premium license is recommended to allow for sharing within an organization. The only alternative is to give all users Power BI Pro licenses. This will become more expensive when you pass 150 users or so, then the premium license is preferable.
I hope this helps!