Transfer Dashboard ownership

Okay,

Not sure if this will work for your situation, but I did find a way to "transfer" ownership of a dashboard/report.  A little BACKGROUND, I was contracted by a consulting firm to develop, build and launch a new BI dashboard service/product, using Power BI.  To do that I had to access their client's data, build the dashboards on a test server, then transfer the dashboards to the production server and share the them with the client.  The problem was that once my contract ended, the firm would no longer carry my Office365 account, which is what I used to access Power BI and build the dashboards, making me the owner.

SOLUTION: To solve this I had a their client create an organizational Power BI account.  I then transferred the original reports/dashboards that I had built in Power BI DESKTOP on the test server, the production server. I then signed in under the client's org account and published the reports from there, thus making that person/account the "owner" of the dashboards.

EXPLANATION/PROCESS: Step 1: To transfer ownership you will require that a) the person you are transferring ownership to has their own Power BI account and b) You must have access to the original Power BI reports that were/are saved as Power BI Desktop files.

Step 2:  transfer the original Power BI Desktop reports to the person you want to give ownership of the dashboards to and instruct them how to open them, sign in to Power BI Desktop, and publish the reports/dashboards.

PLEASE NOTE: What you are actually doing is creating a new version/instance of the original dashboards on the Power BI Service, with the exception of ownership. Meaning that the new owner will also have to set up data gateways, scheduled refreshes, and re-share the dashboards with the people [including yourself] that need access.  The original dashboards that have you as the owner still exist and everyone that you have shared them with can still view them, unless you revoke access/stop sharing.

I hope this helps.