share powerbi report to external users who dont have powerbi account

[lawada]

im trying to share a powerbi report to a client who doesnt have power bi account through a  link . at the same time i want to have security measures on the link so only specific users with specific email addresses can open this link and view the report. how can i share the report by a link while considering security measures into account?

[v-chenwuz-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @lawada ,

If you don't have a power bi account, but have a Microsoft corporate account, you can invite him as a guest user and give this user access to reports.
If you have a regular personal account, you can also invite them, but when they are invited, they will receive an email confirming their acceptance of the invitation and will be able to access the reports you have shared through the link provided in the email.

For more details you can refer this link.

Distribute content to external guest users with Azure AD B2B - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

Or you can use Power BI embedded analytics to embed your content for your customer, however this method is complex.

Best Regards

Community Support Team _ chenwu zhu

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[Burningsuit]

HI @lawada 

Unless you've used "Publish to web" you can't share a Power BI report with someone who doesn't have a Power BI account.

If you used "Publish to web" there is no security on the link, anyone who has it can see the Report. Equally the location "Publish to web" reports are hosted is crawled by BIng and Google, so it is possible that your Report content can turn up in a Bing or Google search for anyone to see.

To share securely the recipient nees a Power BI account. This can be a free account, if the content is on your Premium Capacity licence workspace. Otherwise they need a Pro or Premium per User account, depending on whether the content is on a Pro or PPU workspace. Then when providing access you can limit the link to just that account, and much more security besides.

Hope this helps

Stuart