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Qbota
New Member
10 years ago

Refreshing with PowerBI Free user

I'm a bit confused because of licensing of PowerBI and Personal Gateway.   I have MSSQL Express with some data. I have PowerBI Desktop with some reports. I have account on app.powerbi.com, reports ...
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ibarrau
Super User
9 years ago

I have the same issue. I am working with a new customer and when i had all ready and try to configure the gateway to "refresh now", the message you text is shown. This is crazy, please don't remove refresh now from free content, i can lose so much customers because of this.

I read this change and now can't with on premise gateway, but at least let us use the personal gateway as free.

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asjones
Helper V
9 years ago

Anyone found a solution to this?  We may later buy PowerBI but we are in the early stages with simple stuff.

 

There does not seem to be an easy way to do a manual refresh of data anymore.

 

thanks

 

Alan

 

  • kcwilsonii's avatar
    kcwilsonii
    Helper I
    9 years ago

    Review the diffence between using a gateway and not using one.

     

    The desktop version is free, it seems you get into licensing issues when you use a gateway.

    I am have trouble at work getting the IT Licensing expert to understand this too.

     

    Microsoft appears to have confused the issue with a the gateway option, which seems to me to be

    a cloud service they are trying to implement. But if you don't need a cloud service and you and on premise

    database server just download the free version of PowerBi desktop and connect direcly to your database resource.

     

    I can do this SQL Analysis Services using a the connect live option without any gateway needed