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John7412
New Member
11 years ago

Government Use of PowerBI

Can you give me any additional information on the restriction on .gov email accounts? I am in a state agency and have a substantial investment in the Microsoft BI products but we use a .gov email for...
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haydnr
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11 years ago
Power BI does not currently meet the Trust Center promises for the Government Community Cloud. We do intend to offer a Government Community Cloud version of Power BI and are working to get there as quickly as we can, but we have no projected timing to share at the moment. As a result, to prevent inadvertent mixing of Power BI and Government Community Cloud tenants, individual web sign-up is currently blocked for users with *.gov and *.mil addresses. State agencies can access government pricing for commercial (non Government Community Cloud) Power BI offers deployed to non Government Community Cloud tenants. Non government community cloud tenants with *.gov and *.mil addresses can be established by an admin with DNS rights to the domain for which the tenant is created.
 
The Pyramid Analytics offering works on pbix files created by the Power BI Desktop and as such is not connected to the Power BI service and hence does not require Power BI service licensing or sign-up.
 
I'd encourage you to stay in touch with your Microsoft sales representative so that you will be aware of upcoming government offers as they become available over the coming months.
  • stefam's avatar
    stefam
    Frequent Visitor
    11 years ago

    Thank you for the update and the suggestion to check out the Pyramid Analytics offering.  Please keep us updated on the government offerings via this thread.  I'm investigating at this offering for NASA JPL and will be looking into the on-prem offering you mentioned, but am still interested in a Azure gov-cloud / ITAR compliant option. 

  • scbrown's avatar
    scbrown
    Regular Visitor
    10 years ago

    Any update on this front? :)

    • haydnr's avatar
      haydnr
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      10 years ago

      We are actively working on this but we still have no timing to share at this time.

      It will be at least another month before we might be in a position to share possible options and timing.

      Your patience is appreciated.

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        sagreda
        New Member
        10 years ago

        Are there any updates on the progress of PowerBI for government users?