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jpapador
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O365 required for Power BI Pro

I would like to set up a isolated tenant of Power BI.  I am wondering if I can just purchase the $10 licenses for my users or if I first need something like Office 365 E1 for $8 + the PBI Pro $10?  

 

I was hoping to be able to pay for Azure AD Cloud to manage the users and then PBI Pro licenses.

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Greg_Deckler
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No, you can just use Power BI by itself without an Office 365 license. We have had customers that were only using Power BI and not using Office 365. It creates a "shadow tenant" in Office 365 that you have to convert when the customer eventually decides that they want Office 365. So, just beware of that issue.

 

In my opinion, I would create my Office 365 tenant first, pay for a single license of something like an F1 at like $4 bucks a month and then setup your Power BI on that tenant just to reduce hassles later on, but that really up to you.



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Greg_Deckler
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No, you can just use Power BI by itself without an Office 365 license. We have had customers that were only using Power BI and not using Office 365. It creates a "shadow tenant" in Office 365 that you have to convert when the customer eventually decides that they want Office 365. So, just beware of that issue.

 

In my opinion, I would create my Office 365 tenant first, pay for a single license of something like an F1 at like $4 bucks a month and then setup your Power BI on that tenant just to reduce hassles later on, but that really up to you.



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