Sharing dashboards with external users

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This morning l wanted to try the sharing of dashboards. In such circumstances the first email address l use is my gmail account address. Which allows me to see what the user might expect to see and experience. So that l have first hand experience l can relate to my users. However the gmail.com domain is blocked, which l can understand :-( My question is what other domains are blocked?

greg_deckler · Answer

Alas, my knowledge of the product is sooooo 2 days ago!! :)

itchyeyeballs · Answer

Hi&nbsp;Greg_Deckler&nbsp;it does now&nbsp;&nbsp;https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-february-service-update/#externalSharing&nbsp;:smileywink:&nbsp;BobF&nbsp;hotmail.com is blocked too&nbsp;&nbsp;Not sure why domains would be blocked? recipients have to sign up for Powerbi account to view anyway so would have thought MS would welcome the likes of gmail

bobf · Answer

Its both exicting and exhausting trying to keep up with all the features the Power BI team are releasing!&nbsp;That said l remember moaning to the M/Soft staff at SQLBits last year about the lack of a road map for SSRS. &nbsp;They said just wait, they could not say anything at the time. &nbsp;Since then l feel like my mind has been blown on a weekly /.monthly basis :-&gt;

greg_deckler · Answer

Power BI does not currently support sharing dashboards with external users. There is a "Publish to Web" feature for Reports that you can use, but I realize that is probably not exactly what you want.

bobf · Answer

Thanks for the reply&nbsp;@itchyeyeballs.&nbsp;OMG it works ! &nbsp;Oh this is so good :-D&nbsp;Two lessons learned&nbsp;&nbsp;some domains will just not work :-( Ok that's a minor downside, which l can understand and accept. So cannot use @gmail.com, @hotmail.com, and some other domains. I'll hopefully get and email TO one of my customers tomorrow to test it with them. As this is the feature which l have been waiting for.Open the links in IE just to be safe. When testing the last step to log into PowerBi crashed when l used Chrome, worked when l used the URL with IE

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