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Hoveyg
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7 years ago
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Power Bi PRO License with no publishing ability

Hi Everyone,   In reviewing PBI documentation, I understand a PowerBI Pro license is required in order to both publish AND view a PowerBI report or dashboard.  My question/problem is that I would l...
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    nirvana_moksh
    7 years ago

    Hoveyg - Allocation of a PBI license free or pro by default gives users 'My Workspace', but you cannot publish an app from My Workspace. So limiting the creation of workspaces to certain users and giving view-only access to all workspaces along will restriction of the addition of users to workspaces should get you what you want.

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nirvana_moksh
Impactful Individual
7 years ago
Hoveyg- through the admin portal you can specify who can and cannot create workspaces. Also, having authoring capability and not having access to any of the workspaces will limit users to being able to only publish to their My Workspace
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Hoveyg
Regular Visitor
7 years ago

Thanks again nirvana_moksh...  Taking it a step further, is it also possible to prevent users from publishing and sharing reports on their own 'My Workspace' to the organization?

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    nirvana_moksh
    Impactful Individual
    7 years ago

    Hoveyg - Allocation of a PBI license free or pro by default gives users 'My Workspace', but you cannot publish an app from My Workspace. So limiting the creation of workspaces to certain users and giving view-only access to all workspaces along will restriction of the addition of users to workspaces should get you what you want.