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usmanaziz
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6 years ago

Individual Account Required Admin Rights

I have an individual account under the email address [email protected], but it says to get admin rights from Company's IT team. how is that possible i have created individual account it is not linked with any commpany

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable

    Hi usmanaziz,

    Obviously your account is managed by corresponding company tenant(centegytechnologies.com).
    If they disable options that allow users to register subscriptions, it means you can't do this by this tenant account. (notice: power bi is one of office 365 subscriptions)

    Sign up for Power BI as an individual 

    >>how is that possible i have created individual account it is not linked with any commpany

    You can take a look at following document about signing up a trial tenant for power bi test:

    Signing up for Power BI with a new Office 365 Trial 

    Regards,

    Xiaoxin Sheng

    • usmanaziz's avatar
      usmanaziz
      Regular Visitor

      I have taken a subject in my MBA that is Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. So for that I had to create an acocunt for Power BI, for which i have used email address of my company where I work Full tIme. But using that email address doesnt mean I have created under my company IT team. I dont think my company has an account with Power BI. 

      my Email address is [email protected].

      I am getting below snapshot issue. my concern is when i have an individual account not an organization account then why i am not an admin.

      • AndyRath's avatar
        AndyRath
        Frequent Visitor

        usmanaziz When you signed up with your work email address, in the background that actually assigns you a Power BI (free) licence to your tenant (centegytechnologies.com) licening (same as Outlook/Excel/Yammer etc.). So even if your company is not using Power BI they still manage the admin rights for the Tenant, creating Public Web links to reports is one of the features that requires an admin to help (because it can be a security risk) so you will need to appraoch your IT dept to help (This video helps explain what they need to do) .
        If you want to sign up for PowerBI where you are the admin you'll have to find another way... Adam over at Guy in Cube has a great video here on how to achieve this using free trials.

  • AndyRath's avatar
    AndyRath
    Frequent Visitor

    Hi usmanaziz 

    Please can you give a little more detail? When you say you have created an individual account do you mean you have created an individual account through Power BI Desktop? Do you have a Power BI Pro licence through an Office 365 subscription or other Microsoft licencing avenue etc. What are you trying to do when you get the admin rights required pop up?

    • usmanaziz's avatar
      usmanaziz
      Regular Visitor

      I have taken a subject in my MBA that is Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. So for that I had to create an acocunt for Power BI, for which i have used email address of my company where I work Full tIme. But using that email address doesnt mean I have created under my company IT team. I dont think my company has an account with Power BI. 

      my Email address is [email protected].

      I am getting below snapshot issue. my concern is when i have an individual account not an organization account then why i am not an admin.