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MiguelMartinez's avatar
MiguelMartinez
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

May 3 announcement FAQ

Today we announced changes to Power BI Pro and the free service effective June 1, as well as the availability of an extended Power BI Pro trial offer. Please refer to our free Power BI service change...
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MiguelMartinez's avatar
MiguelMartinez
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

Hi Anonymous,

 

Sorry if the answers have not tackled your question about free users. As you can see, the FAQ does not mention Office 365 licenses or users at all and that is by the design: all Power BI permissions and features for Pro and Free users are defined by a Power BI license, not an Office 365 one.

 

This means, and to answer your question more specifically, if the users you're sharing dashboards and reports with today do not have a Pro license, they will need one on June 1st to do so. It doesn't matter if they are Office 365 users or not.

 

Free users, beginning June 1st , can take advantage of the extended Pro trial to continue accessing the content. After the extended trial expires, users will need a Pro license to maintain access.

 

Terms and conditions for the extended trial can be found here.

  • mistretta's avatar
    mistretta
    Frequent Visitor
    9 years ago

    I read Power BI Premium's external sharing will be through Azure B2B, but is there any support for B2C planned? Our organization operates under a federated structure and have preferred using B2C in order to enable entire franchises by just their domain name; also allowing them to use their own local login credentials.

     

    We also currently have a form based authentication in front of our SSRS, can we use that to authenticate Power BI Premium?

  • DawidMichna's avatar
    DawidMichna
    Regular Visitor
    9 years ago

    Hello MiguelMartinez

     

    I was a free user of PowerBI for some time, until yesterday when I accidentally clicked on Start 60 Pro Trial version butto several hours ago. So I am now a 'Pro Trial version: 59 days to end' user now.

    Does it mean I have to forget about a possibility to participate in extended 12 month trial from June?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    9 years ago

    Hello,

     

    we've been using Pro Trial in our organization, but right now, noone can access Pro Trial. Even though we get information about succes of activation the trial (see picture, although it's in czech) users can't access dashboards. Any idea what to do?

    Thanks

    MV

     

  • tbolon's avatar
    tbolon
    Advocate I
    9 years ago

    Regarding the migration from Power BI Embedded.

     

    Our company have an Azure Enterprise Agreement. With Power BI Embedded, our credits could be used to subscribe Power BI Embedded.

     

    With the new Power BI Premium offer, will we able to use our Azure EA credits to pay for the subscription or not ?

     

    More generally, how will Power BI Premium be billed ? using Office 365 subscription or Azure subscription (or both ?)

     

    Regards,

  • danielsaat's avatar
    danielsaat
    Advocate I
    9 years ago

    Hi Miguel - what about E5 licenses, will PowerBI Premium be included with those license types?

  • ovetteabejuela's avatar
    ovetteabejuela
    Impactful Individual
    9 years ago

    Hi,

     

    I want to clarify, I mean explicitly (or maybe in other terms).

     

    So in our organization, we've been using the free service and are expecting to have the extended trial for the next 12 months.

     

    My question is, what will happen to those people who are just joining in and have not signed in to PowerBI before May 2nd? Does that mean they have to get a PRO license already?

  • lebeauceron's avatar
    lebeauceron
    Regular Visitor
    9 years ago

    Hi, is it normal that at 10 AM June 1st EDT it is still business as usual with the free version?

     

    Kind regards,

     

    Paul

  • ElsD's avatar
    ElsD
    Advocate I
    9 years ago

    Hi,


    The post of May 30 says:

    "Users that have licenses assigned from the Power BI Pro or Power BI Pro Trial subscriptions, within Office 365, are excluded from this (1-year free PRO) offer."

     

    We are working with 0365 and My colleague only gets the 60days offer.

     

    Are you sure this is how it should be?

    Why make a difference for O365?

     

    Best regards

     

  • dfischer's avatar
    dfischer
    New Member
    9 years ago

    I have some follow-up questions on the Power BI Pro licenses. 

     

    1. I see that the cost will be $9.99/month/user.  Are staff fluctuates often so adding and removing licenses will be necessary.  Is there long term licensing commitments or can we add/remove licenses every month?

     

    1. My team currently develops visualizations and dashboards within Power BI Desktop and we would like to use Power BI Pro to share these views.  Is there additional charges associated with the development of dashboards/visualizations?  Will we be able to continue to use Power BI desktop to create our visualizations? 

     

  • kaarel's avatar
    kaarel
    Resolver I
    9 years ago

    Can I use Power BI Report Server on any of the Azure Cloud VM-s with SQL Server Enteprise pre installed? Does does VM-s include Software Assurance...

     

    "Alternatively, if you have SQL Server Enterprise with active Software Assurance, you can use your Enterprise per-core licenses to run Power BI Report Server"

     

    Thanks,

    Kaarel.