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Impactful Individualnew power bi licensing
Hi dilumd
Here are my answers to your questions
- Going forward you will have to have Power BI Pro to share dashboards. If you use the Free Version you are still able to publish to the Power BI Service, but you will not be able to share it with anyone.
- Going forward if you want to share the recipients of your dashboards will have to have the Pro or Premium licensing enabled.
- Under free they are going to give it the same capabilites as the Pro version, with one BIG change that there will be no sharing.
- For any access to viewing other peoples dashboards you will require the Pro or Premium licenses.
You can find more details here for the licensing
So this means that if you have 5 people developing PBI Reports and Dashboards and 95+ who just Consume reports that refresh Daily and/or don't use any of the sexy things that apparently PBI Pro offers ( https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-power-bi-pro-content-what-is-it/ ), you would now be paying $50 US per month but after June 1 you would have to pay $1000+ per month :-) ... even if you never use today's Power BI Pro features.
Simple math and kinda sucks frankly ... Good luck selling that to management ;-)
**bleep**
Impactful IndividualAccording to the moderator here, this solution (having multiple people share a Pro login, for the purposes of viewing dashboards only), is fine:
Advocate II
mmace1 wrote:According to the moderator here, this solution (having multiple people share a Pro login, for the purposes of viewing dashboards only), is fine:
mmace1 just be aware that (a) you can't implement row level security & (b) you can't stop sharing a dashboard with someone & (c) if someone leaves your organisation, can they continue to login (unless you change the password)?
- mmace1
Thanks, yes I'd throught of those downsides as well! Most of it is negated because this particular data - really isn't very sensitive.
b.) The inability to stop sharing is fine
c.) I'd throught of people leaving the organization, yet still being able to login. For us, we could either 1.) As with shared mailboxes, a manager enters the password the first time - thus the user never knows it or 2.) What I'd actually advocate - the data for this shared dash is not sensitive, so I would just leave it. Worst case change the password post-problem(s).
a.) Row level security - a bummer, but still falls under "this data isn't sensitive", so there's nothing we'd bother to restrict anyway. The way this data is currently shared - everyone can see everything, and that's actually the point.