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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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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

 

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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