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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.
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.