Skip to main content
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

To celebrate FabCon Vienna, we are offering 50% off select exams. Ends October 3rd. Request your discount now.

Reply
nj17
Helper III
Helper III

provide access to external users to a workspace in power bi service

Hi all,

getting below issue while adding users to workspace.what i need to do to provide access to extrnal users

 

nj17_1-1660118655633.png

 

Thank you

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION
v-yadongf-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @nj17 ,

 

Power BI enables sharing content with external guest users through Azure Active Directory Business-to-Business (Azure AD B2B). By using Azure AD B2B, your organization enables and governs sharing with external users in a central place.

 

You can invite guest users by planned invites or ad hoc invites. About how to invite guest users, please follow the steps in the documentation: Distribute content to external guest users with Azure AD B2B - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

 

Please note: Ad hoc invites aren't supported in the workspace access list. Use the planned invites approach to add these users to your organization. After the external user becomes a guest in your organization, add them to the workspace access list.

 

Best regards,

Yadong Fang

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

View solution in original post

2 REPLIES 2
v-yadongf-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @nj17 ,

 

Power BI enables sharing content with external guest users through Azure Active Directory Business-to-Business (Azure AD B2B). By using Azure AD B2B, your organization enables and governs sharing with external users in a central place.

 

You can invite guest users by planned invites or ad hoc invites. About how to invite guest users, please follow the steps in the documentation: Distribute content to external guest users with Azure AD B2B - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

 

Please note: Ad hoc invites aren't supported in the workspace access list. Use the planned invites approach to add these users to your organization. After the external user becomes a guest in your organization, add them to the workspace access list.

 

Best regards,

Yadong Fang

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

bcdobbs
Community Champion
Community Champion

You need to go into your tennant settings and enable guest access and guest invites. It should then work.

 

External users need to be invited as guests to your azure tennant.

 

Personally I prefer to enable guest access but then invite guests via the azure portal.



Ben Dobbs

LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog

Did I answer your question? Mark my post as a solution! This will help others on the forum!
Appreciate your Kudos!!

Helpful resources

Announcements
September Power BI Update Carousel

Power BI Monthly Update - September 2025

Check out the September 2025 Power BI update to learn about new features.

August 2025 community update carousel

Fabric Community Update - August 2025

Find out what's new and trending in the Fabric community.

Top Solution Authors
Top Kudoed Authors