Ginger Grant explains an important ramification of the recent Power BI licensing changes:
Included in the recent list of announcements Microsoft made about Power BI Local and Power BI Premium are a series of changes to the Power BI Free version which will go into effect on June 1. The free edition of Power BI will no longer be able to share reports. Currently free users could create reports and share them with others, which will be discontinued. Only Power BI Pro Editions will be able to share reports. Currently Power BI Pro users can create reports which can be shared with Free versions as long as no Pro features are used. This means that if a Power BI report is set to automatically refresh the data, that report cannot be shared as Free versions do not have the ability to create reports which have data refreshed automatically. If the report was recreated to remove the automatic updates and instead refreshed manually, then the report could be shared with Free versions. Starting June 1, the sharing feature will be removed. No longer can Power BI Pro users share anything to Power BI Free users. If you have a Power BI Free account, there is no way to share information in the service. The Power BI Desktop will continue to be free but since you cannot print the content within it and sharing a PBIX file means that you will always be sharing the entire data model, this is of limited value.
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