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Licensing for Premium User
Premium Capacity is not the only way to share a report with someone outside the Company. You've actually got several other options. The easy way is to provide (sell to ?) the other users a Pro licence on your tenant, they can then use that to view the Report. Alternatively the other user can have their own Pro licence provided by their organisation in their tenant (or bought for themselves in their own ) - You have to be able to share outside your tenant in the share dialog, but that's enabled by default. The more complex way is to use Power BI Embedded, but that's probabaly beyond the scope of this answer. Think of a Pro licence as a licence to securely consume and you'll see that Premium Capacity has it's place, but is not a requirement for shareing "outside".
Hope this helps
Stuart
Thanks for your explanation Stuart.. I've come to the same conclusion that buying Pro Licenses for everyone needing a report is the best way to go.. Not really sure why MS makes you pay 4,999.00 for Premiumn Capacity as the only way to share a report with someone outside the company.. It will be easier to give that person an email id for our company with a $10.00 pro license so they can view the report.
Premium Capacity is not the only way to share a report with someone outside the Company. You've actually got several other options. The easy way is to provide (sell to ?) the other users a Pro licence on your tenant, they can then use that to view the Report. Alternatively the other user can have their own Pro licence provided by their organisation in their tenant (or bought for themselves in their own ) - You have to be able to share outside your tenant in the share dialog, but that's enabled by default. The more complex way is to use Power BI Embedded, but that's probabaly beyond the scope of this answer. Think of a Pro licence as a licence to securely consume and you'll see that Premium Capacity has it's place, but is not a requirement for shareing "outside".
Hope this helps
Stuart
This is great information Stuart. Since I'm relatively new to PowerBi, I want to understand all of our options before diving into the abyss. You have my interest peaked with Power Bi Embedded but that might be a bit much for now..Baby steps...LoL
"You have to be able to share outside your tenant in the share dialog, but that's enabled by default. "
I'll have a look at our tenant and see where the share dialog is.. Thanks again for the options