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AbdoPBI's avatar
AbdoPBI
Frequent Visitor
3 years ago

Non-Admin PowerBI Accounts Cannot Open in PowerPoint

When opening up a PowerBI report in a browser using an admin account and attempting to use the "Open in PowerPoint" function to open a visual in PowerPoint, it works as expected. However, any other valid user who tries to do this gets an error:

Http Status Code: 401
Error Code: UserNotLicensed

 

I have tried to set permissions on the underlying dataset, and many other things to make the user in question have the same access as the admin account, but nothing seems to resolve the issue. Anyone else run into this?

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5 Replies

  • lbendlin's avatar
    lbendlin
    Super User
    3 years ago

    Are you sharing the report via the app or via the workspace?

  • aj1973's avatar
    aj1973
    Community Champion
    3 years ago

    Hi AbdoPBI 

    The user either doesn't have a Power BI license or PowerPoint license, the message is clear 

  • AbdoPBI's avatar
    AbdoPBI
    Frequent Visitor
    3 years ago

    Via the app. And yes, the user has a PBI license.

    • lbendlin's avatar
      lbendlin
      Super User
      3 years ago
      "Via the app. And yes, the user has a PBI license." Thing is - if you share via the app then your users don't need a Power BI Pro license. They will need an Office license though.
      • AbdoPBI's avatar
        AbdoPBI
        Frequent Visitor
        3 years ago

        They have Office licenses as well.