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Understanding Premium Per User and Pro licensing
idaugh The way it is supposed to work is that if you put a report in a PPU workspace then only users with a PPU license can access it. If you put the report in a Premium (non-PPU) workspace then anyone can access it. If you are running into a situation where you have a report in a PPU workspace and have Pro-only users or Free users accessing it then don't bet that the situation won't be corrected.
And, right after posting this, I found this about Apps: Publish an app in Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Docs
idaugh Actually, according to the link if you scroll down and read through the Apps portion and licensing it indicates that Pro users can access a published App. It was always my understanding that everyone needed PPU in a PPU workspace but apparently Apps are an exception?
Greg_Deckler Ah ha! I missed your update. Yeah, whoa, that documentation says to me that not only can pro users access apps that are from a premium workspace, but free users can access those apps too. All of our users are pro users, and all of our users only access reports via apps, and since I am the only one who publishes reports, what is to stop me from making all workspaces premium, getting rid of pro licenses for users and save a lot of money? I think more testing is needed. Thanks for the back and forth and I appreciate the helpful link!