O365 required for Power BI Pro

[jpapador]

I would like to set up a isolated tenant of Power BI.  I am wondering if I can just purchase the $10 licenses for my users or if I first need something like Office 365 E1 for $8 + the PBI Pro $10?  

I was hoping to be able to pay for Azure AD Cloud to manage the users and then PBI Pro licenses.

[Greg_Deckler · Accepted solution]

No, you can just use Power BI by itself without an Office 365 license. We have had customers that were only using Power BI and not using Office 365. It creates a "shadow tenant" in Office 365 that you have to convert when the customer eventually decides that they want Office 365. So, just beware of that issue.

In my opinion, I would create my Office 365 tenant first, pay for a single license of something like an F1 at like $4 bucks a month and then setup your Power BI on that tenant just to reduce hassles later on, but that really up to you.

[jpapador]

Thanks, this is helpful!