Sharing with customers

[sturlaws]

Hi,

We have a set of reports we want to share with out customers. We plan to use AAD B2B to add guest users to out tenant, and provide them with Pro-licensences. However, when our licensing department talked to Microsoft they were told the following, in short:

Powerbi.com is part of Office 365 and is under a no commercial hosting model e.g. you cannot use it to host a BI solution for customers. To do that you must use Azure Power BI embedded.

Microsoft agrees that many companies do this and that we are ok to do for a short time but under any form of audit this will be raised and flagged as out of compliance. They also indicated that their audit department has been instructed to start clamping down on this area of use.


I can't find anything reject or support this statement, anyone who help me clarify this?

thanks,
Sturla

[GilbertQ · Accepted solution]

Hi there

I contacted some good friends that I know at the Microsoft Power BI team, and they indicated to me that the Power BI tenant would not be part of an Audit.

Which means that you can then share the reports with external customers. As long as the customer has a Power BI pro license (either their own, or one that you provision) they would be correctly licensed.

[sturlaws]

great, thanks