Sharing Content with Colleagues

Power BI apps are the recommended content distribution method for large corporate BI deployments, but for small teams and informal collaboration scenarios, sharing dashboards and reports provides a simple alternative. By sharing a dashboard, the recipient obtains read access to the dashboard, the reports supporting the dashboards tiles, and immediate visibility of any changes in the dashboard. Additionally, dashboards and reports can be shared with Power BI Pro users external to an organization via security groups and distribution lists, and Power BI Pro users can leverage Analyze in Excel as well as the Power BI mobile apps to access the shared data. Moreover, Power BI Free users can consume dashboards and reports shared with them from Power BI Premium capacity.

In this recipe, a Power BI dashboard is shared with a colleague as well as a contact in an external organization. Guidance on configuring and managing shared dashboards and additional considerations...