Power BI Report Server May 2021 Released!

A little bit underwhelmed by this release. Merely a few bug fixes and stabilisations. What about some of the much needed features, like providing an Analysis-Services endpoint for the datasets so we can reuse datasets just like online? or composite models, or at least the ability to use dual mode?

Hi

I have installed and Configured Power BI Report Server May2021  in my Local System, when I open Web Portal URL in IE with "Run as Administrator" I am getting Message  "You are not allowed to view this folder. Contact your administrator to obtain the necessary permissions. "

I have administrator  access with my uer id

Under LogFiles > RSPortal > getting this message..

Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.Utilities.AccessDeniedException: The permissions granted to user 'msq\suhail are insufficient for performing this operation.;|

Please let me know if anyone know this issue.

Thanks

Suhail

Probably full of bugs, like the last release.

Hi,

Using the new desktop (64 bit) client in an offline environment i am no longer able to import custom visuals.  Instead i get a never ending "loading" symbol as in the screenshot below.  

If i select the option to remove custom visuals they all show up in the list, they just don't appear in the visualizations row.  This was working in previous versions.

Thanks

GS

Hi Petebro ,

Thank you for sharing.

Best Regards,

Dedmon Dai

What does this mean?  "ConfigurationInfo table of the catalog for your Reportserver"  I have no idea what this is talking about.  But it sounds interesting.

Subscription emails are randomly failing with "The delivery extension for this subscription could not be loaded."

If I try a number of times it might work once in a while. 

Any help would greatly appriciated!!!

Hi Petebro , Hi everyone

I've observed two issues connected with Portal2. I've already seen it in January 2021 update, but I've just realized that those issues come up only when the setting UserPortalV2 is changed to "True". When I set it to "False" and stop& start PowerBI service - issues disappear. I reproduced both of them on the old and new portal and I am sure that it appears only when it is set to "True".

1. One of my PowerBI reports (I tested more or less 5 reports) throws an error when I try to upload it by the "Upload" button on the portal. I get a popup with "An error has occurred. Something went wrong. Please try again later." and the file doesn't upload. It works OK when I try to save it on the portal through the PowerBI RS Desktop app.

RSPortal log:

2021-06-17 16:15:35.3878|INFO|9|Received request GET /api/v2.0/CatalogItems(Path='/PL_TEST_REPORT')| RequestID = s_8012fab9-c268-4d1d-a624-4894e8b40869

2021-06-17 16:15:35.3878|ERROR|9|library|Throwing Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.Utilities.ItemNotFoundException: , Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.Utilities.ItemNotFoundException: The item '/PL_TEST_REPORT' cannot be found.;| RequestID = s_8012fab9-c268-4d1d-a624-4894e8b40869

2021-06-17 16:15:35.4338|INFO|6|Sending response. Response code PLBISQLTST\mkorwek 404, Elapsed time 0:00:00,0460683| RequestID = s_8012fab9-c268-4d1d-a624-4894e8b40869

2. When I try to assign roles to the user on the Row-level security tab I also get a popup with "An error has occurred. Something went wrong. Please try again later."

The funny thing is that despite having this error every time when I try to assign a role, my assignments works OK..  They are adding/deleting normally like it was no error. Anyway, this situation is very confusing and annoying.

Have someone observe it on your instances? Or maybe someone knows how to help with these. I really like the new look of the RS Portal, but with these issues, I don't want to process this update on the production environment (I have still May 2020 version on prod).

Regards,

Marcin

Anyone else experiencing report rendering performance issues in this release?

One of our customers PBI Report Servers was upgraded to May 2021, and many of the reports we have on the server now take several minutes to render. This doesn't apply to all reports, and we have had challenges tracking down why certain reports are slow to render and why others only take a few seconds. The CPU and Memory on the Report Server are under 40% utilization, so we aren't resource constrained. The content database has plent of room allocated and its' server not resource constrained either. Here is the an example of some of the odd behavior we are seeing:

If I create a brand new report with a one data source, one data table, and a single table visualization on a blank canvas and upload it to the Report Server, it takes 3 minutes to render on average. This file is less than 1 MB.

An existing report we have that is 300MB, has several pages, background images, and multiple data sources takes less than 5 seconds to render every time. If I take this same report and upload it to a different directory as a "new report", it performs just as well.

All reports have not been configured with a scheduled refresh.

Is anyone else experiencing this same issue? If a Microsoft rep is reading this, I would appreciate any insight you may have into how we can better troubleshoot this issue.

Cheers

Can someone explain what the differences in the latest version of May 2021, released on 7/7/2021?

There's nothing in the change log for this.  Seems to be an update to the desktop only but would be good to get some confirmation.

EDIT:  Found the change log entry:

• Version: 2.93.1681.0 (May 2021), Released: July 6, 2021
  • Contains fix for Google Auth: Google Auth is moved to System Browser (non embedded) to allow users to log into Google Analytics and Google Big Query.