Power Bi Gateway Installation

[powerinM]

Hi : I have got Power Bi Pro license under my work account. I need to install Power Bi Gateway for establishing connection from Power Bi Service to my on-prem sql server (work).

I am not an admin for my Work PC. My company policy doesn't allow non-IT professionals to be the administrator of their PC. When my IT dept assist me in installing the gateway in my PC, it doesn't work.

Becaue while downloading the gateway, Power Bi ask to input account holder user ID and passwords. When I put my Power Bi account details and I am not the admin of my PC, it doesn't work.

What would be the work around?  Would the following work:

I will get one of the IT officers to install the gateway in my PC. When downloading the gateway. Power Bi service will ask for Power Bi account detail. Even though my IT officer may not havy a Pro licence, he/she can create a Power Bi account under his name and install the gateway.

After finish installing the gateway, my IT officer can provide  the admin right to me of that Power BI Gateway. Through this admin rights, would I able to establish connection from Power Bi service to sql server on -prem?

Thanks in advance

[Greg_Deckler]

@powerinM - It sounds like you are installing a personal gateway. If your environment is that locked down, I would highly recommend that your IT dept install an Enterprise Gateway and grant you access to use it. 

[powerinM]

Hi Greg. Thanks for reply.

Sorry I forgot to mention in my previous post that I tried to installaion enterprise gateway as per MSFT recommendation.

What would be the workaround to install the gateway?

[v-deddai1-msft]

Hi @powerinM ,

>>Becaue while downloading the gateway, Power Bi ask to input account holder user ID and passwords. When I put my Power Bi account details and I am not the admin of my PC, it doesn't work.

Did you get any error message?

Have you login in windows with IT officers account and login with your Pro license account when install gateway? Based on my test, it works well.

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Best Regards,

Dedmon Dai

[powerinM]

Hi Dedmon:

I get an error message, when my IT officer log in my PC as an admin and install Power Bi gateway. As part of this installation process, when Power Bi asked to enter account detail I had to enter my credentials because the license is under my name.

Have you login in windows with IT officers account and login with your Pro license account when install gateway?

Can you please further clarify on the above? I am not quite following you.

Thanks

[v-deddai1-msft]

Hi @powerinM ,

What is the error message did you get?  What I mean is to use the admin account when you log in to the computer, but you arrive at the following screenshot during the installation of the gateway, you can enter your pro account：

Best Regards,

Dedmon Dai