Allowing access to Power BI for thousands without setting AllowAdHocSubscriptions to true

[Anonymous]

My company has disabled -AllowAdHocSubscriptions for security reasons. Yet, it prevents people from using Power BI with a free licence. 

A manual workaround is presented here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/fr-fr/blog/how-to-get-power-bi-free-licenses-when-allowadhocsubscripti...

However, we are dealing with thousands of users... It is totally impracticle.

Is it possible to allow adhoc subscriptions to Power BI only (not all services of Microsoft)? If yes, how should we proceeed? Thanks. 

[Seth_C_Bauer · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous What about the O365 admin route? All an admin needs to do is enable that (free) license and apply it to all users... I assume this is just so people can create and see their own reports in the Service, because sharing will require a Pro license.

[Anonymous]

@Seth_C_Bauer That is an option which has been raised at a meeting today. We are investigating it. Apparently, it is technically possible to assign such a licence (for reading purposes, not sharing) automatically.

[Seth_C_Bauer]

@Anonymous This only allows users to be able to use Power BI Service for their own personal use. You can't share without a Pro license. Another alternative for the size of implementation you are talking about is Premium so end users can "read" or view reports. They still would not be able to share content in that without a Pro license...