How do I give Consultants the Ability to Publish from Power BI Desktop to Powe BI Service?

[DarinSpence]

I want to give a consultant access to publish from Power BI Desktop to my Power BI Servicee.  I found an article that suggests this is not possible:

Distribute content to external guest users with Microsoft Entra B2B - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

Is my only option to create a User for them in my Azure AD, then buy them a Power BI Pro lic?

[v-nuoc-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @DarinSpence 

As you know, you do need to create a user in Azure AD for them and provide them with a Power BI Pro license.

Because publishing content to the Power BI service requires authentication of the Azure AD tenant, the user must have a Power BI Pro license to publish reports.

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Regards,

Nono Chen

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[Daniel29195]

@DarinSpence 

im not sure if this is the only way to be honest,  but works just fine. 

we do it like that in the company i work for.  

we buy a premium per user, for the client ,but you can buy a pro .

hope this helps. 

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[DarinSpence]

That's what I was afraid of. 😐