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Using APP to share Reports from PPU to PRO users. Works for some PRO users but not not all
- 2 months ago
"A Premium Per User (PPU) license is required to access content in a Premium Per User (PPU) workspace or app."
Pro can view ppu only when the report is in an app and the user is in that app’s audience, and removing the user once, adding back, and republishing the app is the step.
and I think the idea “pro can’t view ppu at all” is not correct.
- R1k912 months ago
Super User
"A Premium Per User (PPU) license is required to access content in a Premium Per User (PPU) workspace or app."
- DRF1 month agoFrequent Visitor
This was my take away from the MS articles that I read but a lot of users seem to disagree. Today, I double checked and now even users who had full access to the reports are now getting the PPU feature/upgrade popup. At this point, I think MS documents are absolutely not clear about access to app published reports and seem to imply that no license is needed to consume reports from apps even with "Premium capacity/F64 or higher" but in reality they are enforcing PPU license for "Premium Per User - Reserved" capacity.
These articles both point to statements that state that reports from apps in "Premium capacity/F64 or higher" workspaces should have view access to the reports:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/collaborate-share/service-share-dashboards
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/collaborate-share/service-create-distribute-apps#change-your-published-appBut MS enforcement of PPU license seems to be very strict and perhaps changes in MS policy enforcement or even tenant settings could have changes thing at my organization. Also the term "Premium Capacity" seems to means Fabric "F-SKU" and excludes "Premium Per-User P-SKU". So the term "Premium capacity" is vague and misleading as they should just use the term Fabric capactiy.
With MS long extended migration from the old PRO/PPU model to the new Fabric model, licensing is more confusing than ever and everything is geared toward getting you to just buy Fabric Capacity at this point. So, its not all that surprising that most of the community is just accepting this as a "know restriction" since they probably already upgrade to Fabric.
Found another user who also confirmed access but after a while it stopped: working: https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Service/Problem-sharing-Reports-PPU-to-Pro/m-p/2662104 but I also find some of the docs do indicate the more strict enforement so I think I am out of luck here.