Publish a PBIX into an alternate tenancy.

[EvanYates]

We have a partner company with its own Power BI tenancy. They have found some of my reports to be applicable to their business and have asked if I can publish the PBIXs into their tenancy for them to use directly (and also to use a basis for their deriving some of their own reporting in future.)

They have granted my account (in our tenancy) Admin rights to the Power BI workspace in their tenancy. How do I publish from Power BI Desktop to their tenancy? Their Workspace does not appear in my list of Workspaces in Power BI Desktop when I hit the "Publish" button, even though they have granted me access to that workspace. 

The underlying datasource is based on an Azure SQL Server database connected to a system that both companies use, so they can be given network access to that, but I don't want to share the connection credentials overtly. I would prefer they stay within the PBIX itself.

They want me to be the source of the Power BI objects as they don't have anyone with Power BI admin training in their tenancy.

Is this "cross-tenancy" publishing even possible? (or advisable?)
They don't want to pay for me to have a separate account explicitly in their tenancy, but are willing to grant me access using my account in our tenancy.

Any hints from admins who mighht have done this previously?

Thanks.

[Greg_Deckler · Accepted solution]

@EvanYates - Yeah, trust me, this is SUUUUUUPER annoying let me tell you. The short answer is that you need a login in their tenant. Trust me on this, I have gone round and round with Microsoft support on this one and that's currently the only way.

[EvanYates]

Thanks, Greg.
That is what I initially asked for, but the partner company weren't willing to pay for an extra license in their tenancy. I'll tell them they have to cough up the cash if they want the service. 🙂

[Greg_Deckler]

@EvanYates Yep, let me tell you, as a consultant this is a big fat pain in the asterisk...