Guest and external users licencse

[agentilcore]

The official documentation say two differents things:

First, they say

"External members currently can't use the Power BI license they have in their home tenant to access content and perform activities in the provider tenant"

Then, they say 

"Guest user brings their own Power BI Pro or Premium Per User (PPU) license:
The guest user may already have a Power BI Pro or PPU license that was assigned to them through their own organization."

Could you explain that difference to me?

Are there any difference between Guest and External users?

Thanks you

The links is

Distribute Power BI content to external guest users with Microsoft Entra B2B

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/enterprise/service-admin-azure-ad-b2b

[Bipin-Lala · Accepted solution]

Hi @agentilcore ,

Power BI does support Bring Your Own License (BYOL), which means that external users can utilize their own Power BI Pro or Premium Per User (PPU) license from their home tenant to access reports and dashboards in another organization's tenant, avoiding the need for the external organization to purchase additional licenses for them.

The difference actually lies in how the guest/ external users are setup in your organization's AD -

• External users with UserType = Member: These users, while technically external, are treated more like internal users. They cannot use the Power BI licenses from their home tenant. They must be assigned a license in the provider tenant.

• External users with UserType = Guest: They can bring their Power BI Pro or Premium Per User (PPU) licenses from their home tenant to access shared content in the provider tenant.

The distinction lies in how Microsoft Entra B2B treats different types of external users.

So what you actually read in the documentation is completely correct, they have mentioned that Support for UserType = Member in Power BI is currently in preview, and for such users, BYOL is not supported.

I hope this helps!

Also, if you want to know more about the difference between UserType = Member or Guest in terms of Microsoft Entra, refer to the following link - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/external-id/user-properties#can-microsoft-entra-b2b-users-be...