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    Sean Boudreau on 06 Mar 2015 06:34:33

    in 0365 global administrators should not require a powerBI license to admin the environment.

    Administrator on 21 Oct 2020 16:33:25

    Hi! As outlined at https://powerbi.com/dashboards/pricing/ everyone will soon be able to get a license for Power BI for free. You won't be 'wasting' a license on administrators. Thanks!

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    Star D on 17 Apr 2023 18:15:10

    RE: Administrator should not require a license

    I am a power platform admin.The global M365 admin & I opened a support case with Microsoft in 2022 because neither of us could access the power BI admin portal without a license.This is NOT a requirement for any other M365 admin portal.MS's solution to our support case was to update their documentation to say you need a license to access the admin portal.

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    Patrick Mercier on 05 Jul 2020 21:58:40

    RE: Administrator should not require a license

    From Customer (Precision Drilling):
    HI Patrick,

    Today I opened a ticket with MS in regards to admin access to PowerBI. In the end it turned out that as an administrator, I cannot admin PowerBI unless I have a license assigned to my account.

    This seems very silly to waste a license on all my administrators to purely admin PowerBI.

    I had asked the tech to pass this along as an enhancement request, but it does not appear MS has an official way to do this.

    So I was hoping you could pass this feedback along to the product team.

    Thanks