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rdavis6's avatar
rdavis6
Advocate I
9 years ago

Sharing without Pro license

I need to share dashboards and/or reports within my organization. I'd love to be able to post them to an Office 365 SharePoint site. We can't use "Publish to Web" because of security concerns. Appare...
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sirui_sun's avatar
sirui_sun
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

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

rdavis6's avatar
rdavis6
Advocate I
9 years ago

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?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    9 years ago

    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? 

    • rdavis6's avatar
      rdavis6
      Advocate I
      9 years ago

      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.

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Not applicable
        9 years ago

        Yup, the publish to WWW is nice, for private use and maybe small business.

        And also for short sharing,  however having reports which have a weekly update about status should be viewable by multi users for free.

        Microsoft can take the license on the real developers, who consume most of the capacity.