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Hi,
I am using the Power BI free version currently and hence require some details about the PRO version. These are my questions:
1. How do I use Power BI PRO for sharing dashboard content across selected users with selected filter options?
2. When do I require a Power BI Gateway to be installed?
3. What are the differences between Power BI Personal Gateway and Enterprise Gateway, in terms of power bi service priveleges for both?
4. Can I use the Power BI Desktop(free version) version for enabling selected content to selected people without obtaining a pro license? If so how?
5. How do Power BI licenses work? Are they restricted to number of users or is it subcription granted on a time period basis? I ned to know this to ensure that if in case my number of users increases over time, will it be feasible for me to scale up Power BI across all the employees?
Any information(preferably a detailed explanation for each point) on this will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Mathangi Sridhar
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Hello @Mathangi_S, I will try and answer most of your questions:
Hope this helps somewhat, thanks.
Hello @Mathangi_S, I will try and answer most of your questions:
Hope this helps somewhat, thanks.
Hi Wonga,
Thanks so much for your reply! It definitely cleared most of my doubts.
However, I have 2 more questions in mind:
1. Firstly, what I mean by the filtered content is the RLS(Row Level Security) option that is available as a preview option in the desktop version of Power BI. One clarification needed on this is there any limit on the number of roles that can be created and/or number of members in each role in the preview version and same feature availabe in the licensed version?
2. Secondly, the limit of uploading a model or 1 pbix file in Power BI Online is currently 250MB. Is it the same limit if we have the PRO License also or is there any change in this limit in the licensed version? Also when they say a model in Power BI, is it the same as 1 PBix file or are they different?
Hope somebody can help me out on this!
Mathangi Sridhar
@Mathangi_S I just wanted to throw one tidbit in here. @wonga's explanations are fantastic by the way. It sounds like you are exploring all possibilities, so it should be mentioned that with a Pro license you have access to use Direct Query against a SQL database or Live Connection to a SSAS model. In both those instances, you won't have to worry about the Desktop files size because the data is not imported into the PBI Desktop file, it is queried. So the files are extremely small.
Hi @Mathangi_S, my 2 cents below:
Hope this helps, thanks.
Hi Wonga,
Thanks so much for your reply! It definitely cleared most of my doubts.
However, I have 2 more questions in mind:
1. Firstly, what I mean by the filtered content is the RLS(Row Level Security) option that is available as a preview option in the desktop version of Power BI. One clarification needed on this is there any limit on the number of roles that can be created and/or number of members in each role in the preview version and same feature availabe in the licensed version?
2. Secondly, the limit of uploading a model or 1 pbix file in Power BI Online is currently 250MB. I
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