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Refreshing with PowerBI Free user
As of oct 9 2016, you CANNOT refresh even manually with Power BI Free
I spent a full day (oh yeah) installing/uninstalling Personal/Enterprise gateway.
In all attempts, REFRESH NOW or SCHEDULE REFRESH gets me to a page saying:
This dataset contains on-premises data sources. To schedule data refresh, try Power BI Pro for 60,00 days, or contact your Office 365 tenant administrator to purchase Power BI Pro.
Gosh a just RE-READ for the Nth time the product comparison page. Did not see it before but it is clear.
Only the pro can Access on-premise data source (schedule AND manuel)
Data Refresh
| Consume content that is scheduled to refresh | Daily | Hourly |
| Consume streaming data in your dashboards and reports | 10K rows/hour | 1M rows/hour |
| Consume live data sources with full interactivity | • | |
| Access on-premises data using the Data Connectivity Gateways (Personal and Data Management) | • |
Don't use a Gateway, download the desktop version and use that to connect to your data and publish reports
If you have an on premise data server, then connect to it directly