Hi - documentation is not clear on this capability. Can you embed reports from Power BI Report Server?

Just to be clear, Power BI embedding and embedding reports using Power BI Report Server are completely different technoclogies. The Power BI Service in the cloud provides an API for retreiving embedding reports, dashboards and tiles and for retreive embed tokens. This server-side API is complimented by a client-side JavaScript API that provides developers with rich functionality to create interactive pages with embedded reports which allows users to navigate between report page, set filters and apply bookmarks. None of this functionality is available with Power BI Report Server which has a completely different set of APIs which have been carried over from SQL Server Report Server. Power BI Report Server just provides a simple iframe approach to embed a report on a web part, This style of embedding is incredibly thin compared to Power BI embedding in the cloud.

Nath_BI - I appreciate this is an old thread, but the answer is you do not need Azure provided your report server and your web server can communicate with one another. I have just successfully embeded one of my reports on a web page; <iframe width="1000" height="700" src="http://my-server:myport/Reports/powerbi/myreportname?rs:embed=true" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen="true"></iframe>The "rs:embed=true" is crucial, without it the request gets knocked back by the report server. Hope this helps.

Is embedding from Power BI Report Server in an on-premises environment on the roadmap? It would be great to have clarification on this as it is a deal breaker.

Eliasaki92 sujay316 See more clarifiation in the reply from PG in this thread. By the way, there's a dedicated sub forum for Power BI Report Server, for Report Server specific questions, you can get more proper response here.

No, because users have to be authenticated against AD. I suppose you could create a dummy AD account and provide the credentials to the external customer. I don't really like that approach though, maybe someone else has found a way to allow anonymous access?

Can you embed reports from Power BI Report Server?

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Eliasaki92
Advocate II
9 years ago
Is embedding from Power BI Report Server in an on-premises environment on the roadmap? It would be great to have clarification on this as it is a deal breaker.
- Eric_Zhang
  Microsoft Employee
  9 years ago
  Eliasaki92
  
  sujay316
  
  See more clarifiation in the reply from PG in this thread.
  
  By the way, there's a dedicated sub forum for Power BI Report Server, for Report Server specific questions, you can get more proper response here.
Eric_Zhang
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago
jgermain wrote:

Hi - documentation is not clear on this capability. Can you embed reports from Power BI Report Server?

jgermain

It is probably possible, however not the usual way to embed reports in Power BI Service. As PBI Report Server is a superset of SQL Server Reporting Services, so I think you can reference this Integrating Reporting Services into Applications.

~~I'm consulting to the product team internally to offer a embedded demo as those embedding demos for Power BI service. I'll post back if I get any update.~~

No, I just get the confirmation from the Dev team that the capacity to embedded reports from PBI Report Server is not on the roadmap. You can submit your idea at Microsoft connect.
- Eliasaki92
  Advocate II
  9 years ago
  Hi, I am confused now. Look at this: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/reportserver-quickstart-embed/
  
  Is there any way to embed dashbaords on premises into applications? Without having to go thorugh the Azure cloud? What about direct query? Is this like on-premises?
  
  Many thanks in advance.
  Elias
  - sujay316
    New Member
    9 years ago
    I am confused as well. I tried what the link says. If i add the embed true paramter and use the link everything works fine but when i put the link in an iframe or in a SharePoint page viewer it just keeps loading forever
- highlander1
  New Member
  9 years ago
  Hi,
  Does this mean that it's required to use Azure service to show a Power BI report in a web application?
  
  Thanks,
  Highlander
- highlander1
  New Member
  9 years ago
  Hi,
  Does this mean that it's required to use Azure service to show a Power BI report in a web application?
  
  Thanks,
  Highlander
  - Nath_BI
    Regular Visitor
    8 years ago
    Hi all,
    
    I also wonder about this. Do we need Azure when embedding Power BI or can we use different capacity?
    
    Thanks!

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