Updated: December 20, 2024 (October 7, 2024)

Fabric Customers Win Back Dual-Use Rights for Power BI Report Server

Andrew analyzes and writes about Microsoft's data management, business intelligence, and machine learning solutions, as well as aspects of licensing... more

Plans to remove Power BI Report Server dual-use rights when customers move to Fabric have been scrapped.
The ability to use a Fabric subscription to cover the use of Power BI Report Server concurrently on-premises and in the cloud has been added.
The reversal by Microsoft removes the risk of a significant cost increase for customers using the dual-use rights.

Microsoft has quietly relented and added Power BI Report Server dual-use rights for high-end Fabric deployments, a right the company originally stated was not compatible with Fabric. Adding the right to Fabric is a benefit for existing Power BI Premium P customers who use dual-use rights to cover the licensing for Power BI cloud and on-premises deployments with a single Premium P subscription. Without the change, those customers would have faced a significant cost increase when they moved from Power BI to Fabric after Dec. 2024. Dual-use rights are only available for high-end Fabric deployments licensed using capacity reservations, which requires an annual commitment.

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