topic Power BI Report Server Evaluation/Developer Editions in Report Server

Power BI Report Server Evaluation/Developer Editions

duhast2017 — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:56:38 GMT

Power BI Report Server is available in two free editions:
- Evaluation (180 days)
and
- Developer.

1) What is the difference between them?
2) Is there any technical limitation comparing to the production edition?

Re: Power BI Report Server Evaluation/Developer Editions

Jon-Heide — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 21:15:11 GMT

Same product, same features, just different licenses.

Re: Power BI Report Server Evaluation/Developer Editions

duhast2017 — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 21:48:29 GMT

Jon-Heide wrote:
Same product, same features, just different licenses.

Jon-Heide, thank you for your answer!
a) Could you please tell, what is the difference between Evaluation and Developer licenses?

b) Also as I understood, there is no technical limitation comparing to the production edition, correct?

Re: Power BI Report Server Evaluation/Developer Editions

v-qiuyu-msft — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 01:37:38 GMT

Hi duhast2017,

1. The Evaluation will expired after 180 days. And the Developer can't be used for business purpose.

2. Both Evaluation and Developer provide same technical features.

Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu

Re: Power BI Report Server Evaluation/Developer Editions

datalearner — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:16:42 GMT

What happens after it expires? What are the options?

Re: Power BI Report Server Evaluation/Developer Editions

ehab23 — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 12:41:28 GMT

Can you please define the " Business purpose" ?

Re: Power BI Report Server Evaluation/Developer Editions

Skeletor — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 13:43:12 GMT

Business Purpose means production environment. I think to clarify this means to use PBIRS to deliver reports and/or data to end users with production data. The developer edition can be used to develop reports in a development environment, this reports can be moved up to a production environment that has the appropriate production environment licensing.

Re: Power BI Report Server Evaluation/Developer Editions

AndersC — Tue, 19 May 2020 15:06:17 GMT

When using PBI Report Server Evaluation edition, doesn't changes in the web.config then takes effect?

I'm trying to add maxRequestLength="8192" to web.config cause I have one huge SSRS rdl-report (7 Mb).

Default value of the property maxRequestLength is 4 Mb.

Re: Power BI Report Server Evaluation/Developer Editions

d_gosbell — Wed, 20 May 2020 06:20:18 GMT

AndersC wrote:

When using PBI Report Server Evaluation edition, doesn't changes in the web.config then takes effect?

There should not be any issues changing this in the web.config. The Evaluation edition is fully functional, it just expires after 180 days.

Re: Power BI Report Server Evaluation/Developer Editions

BarneyT — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 12:17:57 GMT

Hi, dan you tell me if the Developer license expires? I know it cant be used for production purposes. We have power BI premium for production but I want to know if we can continue to use the "developer license" or if it will time bomb. Thanks