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-Blair-
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4 years ago
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Power BI Sharing and Licencing

  With a premium capactiy I can share a report in a workspace via an app or external application where the user viewing the report has a Power BI Free licence assigned. This works sucessfully.   C...
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  • Burningsuit's avatar
    Burningsuit
    4 years ago

    Hi -Blair- 

    No, a Premium Per User licence (PPU) gives the individual user many of the benefits of Premium Capacity (Faster speed, Paginated Reports etc.) But does not give Free user access.

    A PPU licence can create a Workspace and make it a PPU Workspace, Datasets in this workspace get the benefits of the PPU licence, but it can only be shared with others who have a PPU licence. Pro users and Free users cannot access a PPU workspace or App built from that workspace. 

    see :What Is Premium Per User? | Power BI Licences | Burningsuit

    Hope this helps

    Stuart

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Burningsuit
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4 years ago

Hi -Blair- 

No, a Premium Per User licence (PPU) gives the individual user many of the benefits of Premium Capacity (Faster speed, Paginated Reports etc.) But does not give Free user access.

A PPU licence can create a Workspace and make it a PPU Workspace, Datasets in this workspace get the benefits of the PPU licence, but it can only be shared with others who have a PPU licence. Pro users and Free users cannot access a PPU workspace or App built from that workspace. 

see :What Is Premium Per User? | Power BI Licences | Burningsuit

Hope this helps

Stuart

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-Blair-
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4 years ago

That is interesting.

So if a workspace is created under a PPU account for the extra size requirements or for paginated reports then Pro users cannot connect to any reports in the workspace?

 

I knew it was too good to be true when they said PPU gives the benifits of premium, because to me one of the big benifits is viewers can use a free licence so when you have a huge viewer base but not many concurent users it works well.

  • v-janeyg-msft's avatar
    v-janeyg-msft
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    4 years ago

    Hi, -Blair- 

     

    You can reference it:

    Workspace Type Viewers with basic account Viewers with Pro license Viewers with PPU license
    Pro Workspace No Yes Yes
    Premium Per User Workspace No No Yes
    Premium Per Capacity Workspace Yes Yes Yes

     

    If you have PPU licence, you can just create a shared capacity, It is not necessary to create a ppu workspace, so pro licence use can visit(ppu license contains all the featuress of pro). But ppu workspace can only be used by ppu license users. As for free users, they can only view content in premium capacity.

    They don't have any conflict.

     

    Did I answer your question ? Please mark my reply as solution. Thank you very much.
    If not, please feel free to ask me.


    Best Regards,

    Community Support Team _ Janey