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powerbihelp87
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1 year ago
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Power Premium Per User Workspace Share to Premium Workspace

if we have a PPU Workspace and then want to share the report to a Premium workspace will the users need any license?     We have Premium P2 but a couple reports are taking up a lot of the capacity...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    1 year ago

    Hi powerbihelp87,

     

    You're right, the capacity impact depends on where the semantic model (dataset) resides, not just where the report is stored. Just copying a report to Premium does NOT move the workload. The dataset's location determines where processing happens. 

    When you copy a report from a PPU workspace to a Premium workspace, the report itself is transferred, but the dataset (semantic model) remains in its original PPU workspace unless you also transfer the dataset explicitly. This means the query workload (and refresh impact) remains in PPU, not in Premium. 

     

    Please go through the following links to get a better understanding of PPU and Premium licenses.

    Power BI Premium Per User - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

     

    If I misunderstand your needs or you still have problems on it, please feel free to let us know.  

    Best Regards,
    Hammad.
    Community Support Team

     

    If this post helps then please mark it as a solution, so that other members find it more quickly.

    Thank you.

     

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collinq
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1 year ago

Hi powerbihelp87 ,

 

By definition, in a Premium Workspace you can share with anybody you want.  In a PPU only workspace, only PPU users can use it.  If you are trying to do this for testing purposes then your plan might work and then when the testing is done by the PPU user, the report can be moved/copied to the Premium Workspace (your P2).  Then, they will only take P2 capacity when they are being used.

 

If you are wanting to keep it separate, that might work as well.  But, that means never moving that report to the P2 capacity.  When the report runs, it is using the capacity assigned to it.  So, i don't think you get any long term benefit if you end up putting it into your P2 in the end.

 

The other consideration might be that if yo uare tyring up a P2 with what you are running, a PPU gets LESS capacity and the report(s) running there might not run at all if they get over the capacity limit.

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    powerbihelp87
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    1 year ago

    I was assuming the semantic model lives in PPU workspace so it takes up that capacity not the P2 Premium since its just a copy