Simple question about making PBIX reports available in the cloud for domain users

[KevinSGoff]

Our company has Power BI Premium.   I'm one of the developers and I have a PBI Pro License.

I'm able to create PBIX reports and push them up to the cloud service in a particular workspace.

I've given all of our domain users the ability to view the contents of the workspace (under workspace access, I set permissions to "viewer").

Here's my question:  do those domain users need to have any kind of PBI license?

Reason for asking, when they attempt to view the report, some are getting a prompt to do a 60-day PBI trial.

I would have thought that since I gave them viewer access (and they are domain users), that would be enough.  

Now, they are trying to view the report via a URL I got from the service, which is basically the following:

https://app.powerbi.com/reportEmbed?reportId=<reportid>&autoAuth=true&ctid=<another key> &config=<another key>

I got that URL by taking the option to securely embed the report in a website or portal.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Kevin

[GilbertQ]

Hi @KevinSGoff 

You have almost got it setup, the final step is that you need to assign a Power BI Free license to those users.

Currently the users do not have any license assigned and that is why it is asking for the trial.

[KevinSGoff]

Thanks for responding.  OK, I feel a bit silly for asking....while I don't expect that EVERY single domain user will want to be able to view the PBI reports we put up in a general viewing Workspace.....it seems a little strange to have to setup a free PBI license, especially since we have PBI Premium in our organization.  I'm hopefully we can do that without having to get users involved.     Thanks

[GilbertQ · Accepted solution]

Hi @KevinSGoff 

You would need to ask your Office 365 Admin to configure the Power BI Free license to all the users.

Currently that is how it needs to be done.

[KevinSGoff]

Ah, that sounds better....thanks!