Forum Discussion
User owns data licensing requirements
arnoldp Workspaces and sharing when viewed in the Power BI Service require that all users have a Pro license. If you embed the report in an application, you could use Power BI Embedded to license users to consume it via the application, but they wouldn't be able to in the Service as that requires either a Pro license or premium (covers free users). Either way, the report developer and those that need to update the report would still require Pro licensing.
arnoldp That doesn't sound like it should behave that way... Let me see if I can get a definite answer.
Anonymous Were you able to get a clarification on the current behaviour of the Power BI service? We are about to implement for a client based on the current behaviour and it is absolutely critical that we can communicate it beforehand if this is likely to change. Please do let me know if there is someone we can contact to get this clarification.
Thanks for your assisstance.
arnoldp Yes, You should consider this a bug. An embedded license alone does not grant you any access to shared content within the PBI Service. That is only achievable via a Pro or Premium license.