Sharing externally with Premium-per-user license

[Anonymous]

Have a question about report sharing abilities with the premium-per-user licensing.

I've read some conflicting information, but basically my question is whether it's possible to share Power BI reports with external users when I only have a premium-per-user license - but not a premium capacity. I have all the options to share enabled, and when I go to share a report and enter the email address of an external user it says it was shared successfully - but the user never receives an email to access the report.

I am essentially a single person operation so buying a capacity does not make sense for me so i'm trying to figure out the easiest way I can create reports and share them via sharepoint/embed them into a website.

[AlexGurovich]

Hi @Anonymous I need to do the same thing you are asking. Did you happened to find some workaround ? I also don't have the means to buy a "Premium per Capacity" license. 

[Anonymous]

Nope, no workaround. You either need to have an O365 plan that includes pro for each user, purchase pro for each user you want to be able to view or have a premium capacity.

[aj1973 · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous 

The answer is no, you need Capacity for external users of your reports 

Unless you want to share your report via a Public URL (no sensitive data) then no need for the Capacity

[Anonymous]

How can I share report to external user via a Public URL ?

[aj1973]

@Anonymous 

You will need permission from the Power BI Tenant to let you generate the Public URL.