Power BI Desktop - Limitations

[kellysolutions]

1. I have created a model in Power BI Desktop.

2. My user only has a basic MS Business 365 plans, i.e. no Power BI subscriptions.

3. Am I correct in saying they can only access the report / model by using Power BI Desktop to view their own personal copy of the model.

I imagine this would allow them to mess around with what I have done.

Sorry if this has been asked elsewhere.

Thank you,

Paul

[Melissa]

Hi @kellysolutions,

See this post by @Harsh

Read-Only License for Power BI

Hello Everyone, Hope everyone is good. Today I would like to provide a link of one of the Community Webinars which was organized by the Microsoft Power BI just few hours back where Reeza Rad has explained in depth about the licensing requirements for Power BI end-users. How one can effectively and efficiently choose the licensing plans offered by the Microsoft. In order to understand this much better he had explained the concepts by taking up different scenario levels s…

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If you let your client use a local installation of Power BI Desktop, yes they can unwillingly mess up your work BUT probably more important from a user perspective the data would be static until they hit that refresh button.
Pro licences aren’t expensive, maybe a trail period is possible, I don’t know but I would look into finding more arguments to persuade your client to subscribe…

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[kellysolutions]

All sorted thank you very much