Power BI Pro confusion (I can create an App Workspace)

[DebbieE]

Im currently very confused over the Power BI Pro License 

Im working for a company with Power BI Premium. From everything I have been told, you still need a Power BI Pro Licence to Develop.

I have just checked in Azure and not only do I not have a Power BI Pro License but I dont even have a Free license within their directory.

My Assumption was, with a Pro License You can create an App Workspace and publish to that App Workspace

With A free License you can only publish to My Workspace and you cant share with anyone.

However, I can login to the Power BI Service and Create a Workspace. This is very confusing since I dont have Power BI Pro.

Can someone explain why this is something I can do? Also No no one seems to have a Pro license. they all have Free licenses. For me, this means that no one can develop and allow other users to look at their reports and dashboards. this has confused me further because there are 3 Apps I can download (All shared at organisation level) How is this possible without power BI Pro Licenses?

https://stoneridgesoftware.com/what-are-the-differences-between-power-bi-free-power-bi-pro-and-power...

[DebbieE · Accepted solution]

Well that was interesting. 

It allowed me to create an App workspace but then you get an error Something Went Wrong. Couldnt create the App Workspace. 

It would be nice if the message said Something went wrong. couldnt create an app Workspace because you do not have a Pro License but at least thats something

[v-lid-msft]

Hi @DebbieE ,

It seems like an abnormal and weird behaviour, we test with member user and guest user without Power BI Pro licence, but all of users got a message "need to upgrade to power bi pro" when try to create an app workspace.

Does the shared button or other feature need pro license also output the error message instead of "need upgrade pro license"?

Best regards,

[DebbieE]

"Does the shared button or other feature need pro license also output the error message instead of "need upgrade pro license"?"

Im not sure what you mean here. 

I can output you the technical details of the error

Something went wrong

Couldn't create the app workspace.

Please try again later or contact support. If you contact support, please provide these details.

• Activity IDf081a4b0-304a-4de1-b6aa-a1991994ca4c
• Request IDada60763-81d7-43ad-70c3-eff12e9d0981
• Correlation IDbb6830c6-0a7f-3bcd-a65e-3e419596789a
• Status code400
• TimeMon May 04 2020 10:05:19 GMT+0100 (British Summer Time)
• Service version13.0.13035.262
• Client version2004.2.00695-train
• Cluster URIhttps://wabi-north-europe-redirect.analysis.windows.net/