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Power BI - accessing
We have a Tenant Premium Capacity. All of our workspaces are located in it. We've have not used 'per User'. The first scenario is a Non-Pro user with Viewer role to a Premium workspace. If they follow a link to a report they have no issue. If they try to get to a report through the workspace they get the prompts for Power BI Pro Upgrade.
because you need to lunch the workspace as a apps no licence user can consume apps, to access the workspace directly thats to colaborate on the report and workspace independtly the user privilage you need a pro licence to enter to a workspace even in primiun capacity, free user can consume freely the apps, you need to enter the workspace and publish as a app the workspace cause entering directly its considerated a contribution action (only pro licence inside a primium capacity can do this)
Hi, thanks for your replies. The below article leads me to believe that the Non-licensed viewer should be able to view reports in a premium capacity. I'm not sure what I'm missing.
" If the workspace is in a Power BI Premium capacity, users who have the Viewer role but do not have a Pro license can now navigate directly to the workspace and view the content. This helps smaller teams that want stakeholders to have read-only access to all workspace content, but do not want to publish and maintain a Power BI app for this purpose. It’s a really nice usability and efficiency improvement."
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-new-viewer-role-for-power-bi-workspaces/
again, this tis tru if you have a primium tenant licence, if you have instead a per user primium licence this doesnt apply
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-premium-per-user-faq