
This will be a quick review and if you need more details, visit Licenses for consumers or Power BI basic concepts. Let's review some Power BI concepts before we get to the list. This article lists which features in the Power BI service are available to users with Free licenses. In the previous article, you learned that what you can do with dashboards, reports, and apps (content) in the Power BI service depends on three things: your licenses, your roles and permissions, and where content is stored. For more information on other ways to share content, see Ways to share your work in Power BI. But this article is for Power BI users with a Free license, and therefore only describes how Free users receive and interact with content. There are many different ways designers can share content. Sometimes, designers share content by sending you links, and sometimes the content automatically installs and appears in Power BI under Apps or Shared with me.

Pro and PPU users have the ability to share content with their colleagues and to control what their colleagues can and can't do with that content.

If designers with a Pro or PPU license shares content in a regular workspace, you need the same license as the designers have. Designers need to share content to a workspace backed by a Premium capacity, to benefit from unlimited content sharing as part of Premium. Those reports and dashboards are created by designers who have Power BI Pro or Premium Per User (PPU) licenses. APPLIES TO: Power BI service for business users Power BI service for designers & developers Power BI Desktop Requires Pro or Premium licenseĪs a Power BI service customer with a Free license, you explore reports and dashboards in order to make business decisions.
