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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.
Dear Anonymous - it sounds like you're into the licensing. Hope you can help me with this one, which is similar to the one you've answered in this thread. Same scenario - user owns data demo is setup and works perfectly. All users have pro license. Are there any limitations for this to work in the future? Is there a max number of tokens available, even though all users have pro license? Can we run this setup without embedded capacity? Br Andreas
AndreasHermanse This is a good question, I'll have to throw the caveat of "I believe" this should work provided you are authenticating via AAD, and that the content has also been shared with the end users from within the Power BI Service. In this scenario, it should validate that the end user has access to, and can view the report. Without the share in the Service, I would assume that the end users would not be able to see it.
Ok. thank you very much Anonymous. But you don't "believe" we'll run into a license issue with this setup as long as all users have a pro license?
AndreasHermanse Correct. It would be a pretty straightforward test. Create an embedded report, have the pro user try to access via the app. It should fail. Share the report to the user in the PBI Service, have them check again, it should render.