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arnoldp
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago
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User owns data licensing requirements

In a "User owns data" scenario, do all the viewers with whom the report is shared, need to have a Power BI Pro license in order to view the report?   I have run the Power BI demo app 'integrate-rep...
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    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.

     

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AndreasHermanse
New Member
7 years ago

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?

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Anonymous
Not applicable
7 years ago

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.