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Sharing without Pro license
Hello -
I would suggest looking into Power BI Premium, which enables unlimited distribution of your content without the need for consumers to have Pro licenses. Premium works with a number of distribution options which do not require writing code - e.g. Power BI apps, SharePoint Online embed via web part, etc.
To learn more: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi-premium/
-Sirui
Thanks. I looked at the link. While that would solve the problem, according to the calculator it would also increase our costs by about 5x. So it's not really an option.
I was hoping that PBI would have a tick box setting like SharePoint and OneDrive where you can simply disable external sharing. Does anyone know if PBI has a setting like that?
I have exactly the same issue!
Some great work Microsoft did on this application, even with free licenses.
Now... they break the complete license structure and we have to pay x times more.
I would totally agree for the developers to have a Pro account, however if you want to share simple graphs with sr management, you don't want them to login or anything like that.
The value of having simple users with this premium license is totally lost....
Also posted my concerns here because I don't see any solution yet:
Re: What happens with shared dashboards on 1st of June?
Please vote for my idea to make it free again:
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/19666702-free-license-for-sharing
Such a great tool, just killed due to license. I don't expect this is MS strategy, right?
Anonymous, Microsoft has free sharing using the "publish to web" function. Our problem is that we can't use it because it also allows people to share content on Google and Facebook. We can't let corporate data out into the wild like that.
What I'm looking for is a middle option where "publish to web" works WITHIN my firewall only.
Would the E1 SKU for Premium be sufficient for users without a PowerBI Pro license to access report content through the SharePoint online modern page web part?
Guy in a Cube youtube channel over the weekend just did an Unplugged episode where they touched upon Premium. They mentioned that if you have Premium, you have all of the functionality that comes with the Embedded license.
Premium still requires at least eur 4500,- per month.
For 100-200 users this still isn't interesting to purchase.
It'll be only interesting with 500 users, well that's already a big company in a lot of countries. :)
