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-->To create Power BI reports for Power BI Report Server, you need to download and install the version of Power BI Desktop that's optimized for Power BI Report Server. This release is different from the Power BI Desktop used with the Power BI service. For example, the version of Power BI Desktop for the Power BI service includes preview features. Those features aren't in the Power BI Report Server version until they're generally available. Using this release makes sure that the report server can interact with a known version of the reports and model.
Not to worry. You can install Power BI Desktop, and Power BI Desktop optimized for Power BI Report Server, side by side on the same computer.
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Download and install Power BI Desktop
The easiest way to be sure you have the most up-to-date version of Power BI Desktop optimized for Power BI Report Server is to start from the web portal of your report server.
In the report server web portal, select the Download arrow > Power BI Desktop.
Or go to the Power BI Report Server home page and select Advanced download options.
In the Download Center page, select a language, then select Download.
Depending on your computer, select:
- PBIDesktopRS.msi (the 32-bit version) or
- PBIDesktopRS_x64.msi (the 64-bit version).
After you download the installer, run the Power BI Desktop Setup Wizard.
At the end of the installation, select Launch Power BI Desktop.
It starts automatically and you're ready to go.
Verify you're using the correct version
It's easy to verify that you're using the correct Power BI Desktop: Look at the launch screen or title bar within Power BI Desktop. You can tell you have the right version because Power BI Desktop (October 2020) is in the title bar. Also, the Power BI logo colors are reversed, yellow on black instead of black on yellow.
The version of Power BI Desktop for the Power BI service doesn't have the month and year in the title bar.
File extension association
Say you've installed both Power BI Desktop and Power BI Desktop optimized for Power BI Report Server on the same machine. Your most recent installation of Power BI Desktop has the file association with .pbix files. Thus, when you double-click a .pbix file, it launches the Power BI Desktop you installed most recently.
If you have Power BI Desktop and then install Power BI Desktop optimized for Power BI Report Server, all .pbix files open in Power BI Desktop optimized for Power BI Report Server by default. If you would rather have Power BI Desktop be the default to launch when opening a .pbix file, reinstall Power BI Desktop from the Microsoft Store.
You can always open the version of Power BI Desktop you want to use first. And then open the file from within Power BI Desktop.
Here's the safest way to always open the correct version of Power BI Desktop. Start editing a Power BI report from within Power BI Report Server, or create a new Power BI report from the Power BI service.
Considerations and limitations
Power BI reports in Power BI Report Server, in the Power BI service (https://app.powerbi.com), and in the Power BI mobile apps act almost exactly the same, but a few features are different.
Selecting a language
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For Power BI Desktop optimized for Power BI Report Server, you select the language when you install the app. You can't change it after, but you can install a version in another language.
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Power BI Report Server reports support almost all visualizations, including Power BI visuals. Power BI Report Server reports don’t support:
- R visuals
- ArcGIS maps
- Breadcrumbs
- Power BI Desktop preview features
Reports in the Power BI mobile apps
Power BI Report Server reports support all the basic functionality in the Power BI mobile apps, including:
Phone report layout: You can optimize a report for the Power BI mobile apps. On your mobile phone, optimized reports have a special icon , and layout.
Power BI Report Server reports don’t support these features in the Power BI mobile apps:
- R visuals
- ArcGIS maps
- Power BI visuals
- Breadcrumbs
- Geo filtering or bar codes
Custom Security
Power BI Desktop optimized for Power BI Report Server does not support custom security. If your Power BI Report Server is configured with a custom security extension, you can't save a Power BI report from Power BI Desktop (optimized for Power BI Report Server) to the Power BI Report Server instance. You need to save the .pbix report file from Power BI Desktop and upload it to the Power BI Report Server portal site.
Saving reports to a Power BI Report Server in a different domain
When you save a Power BI report to Power BI Report Server, your Windows credentials are used. Saving directly to a report server in a different domain to your Windows credentials is not supported. You can use a web browser to view the report server and manually upload the file from your machine instead.
Next steps
Now that you have Power BI Desktop installed, you can start creating Power BI reports.
Create a Power BI report for Power BI Report Server
What is Power BI Report Server?
More questions? Try asking the Power BI Community
Possibly my favourite Macbook ever is the trusty mid 2012 edition model. This portable and powerful unit is still very current, supporting Thunderbolt and USB 3, powerful processors, decent battery life, popular 13 inch size and upgradeable to 16Gb of memory, ideal for running Power BI Desktop…. except Power BI Desktop only runs on Windows… 🙁 . But wait, there’s more…
Microsoft’s beautiful and bold plan for Power BI is to enable this accessible Data tool within the reach of every Business User on the planet, and that means any device… So where is the Mac OS X version ?
Read on…
Power BI Desktop runs in several flavours :
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Power BI Desktop – A Windows download that runs on a Windows desktop – 64 bit recommended.
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Power BI Cloud – A brilliant zero infrastructure collaboration portal for sharing your concepts with colleagues or external service providers.
Power BI Mobile – Nifty and Pretty user friendly Mobile apps on IOS, Windows 10 Mobile and Android that allow you to roll out your concepts into live operational systems with Alerting and Notifications for easy and turnkey Management By Exception.
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Power BI Embedded – a .Net deployed application that features your Power BI Cloud tiles incorporated into your own Application Seamlessly using Power BI backend APIs.
Power BI SharePoint – via some third party SharePoint apps.
Power BI On-Premise – yes, On-Premise, with a pricey Pyramid Analytics server from the company that collaborated with Microsoft to birth Power BI.
As for Power BI Desktop, we can run on Mac OS X in two ways :
- Create a virtual machine in Azure, install Power BI desktop there and access your Power BI cloud workstation via Mac OS X Remote Desktop apps like the sweet Remote Desktop app Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac.
- Install Parallels Desktop on your Mac, load up a Windows 10 ISO, install Windows, and load Power BI Desktop on this local virtual machine. Utilise Parallels Desktop to create a seamless Power BI Desktop experience by creating a user friendly shortcut that makes you think you are running Power BI Desktop as a native Mac OS X app.
Parallels has three flavours :
- Standard edition supporting up to 4 processors and 8gb of RAM
- Pro edition capable of more than 4 processors and up to 64Gb of RAM
- Business edition – Pro edition with Centralised Management capability
There are some other awesome features, like being able to spin up an Android or IOS virtual machine from a template, which is brilliant for demo-ing and testing Power BI mobile apps before rollout.
You can also install Parallels Access Agent allowing you to Remote Control your Mac over the internet.
But bring on the Mac OS X app please Microsoft 🙂