topic Re: Browsing report makes requests to external resources in Report Server

Browsing report makes requests to external resources

ottofrello — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 14:42:40 GMT

I have set up Power BI Report Server (SQL Server Enterprise with Software Assurance version 15.0.1108.297) on premise, and set up my first report. When browsing the report, the browser makes a request to the external resource appsource.powerbi.com/visuals.json. The content of the file seems pretty irrelevant, and I want to get rid of this (and any other) requests to external resources.

I have done the following already:

In the registry editor, in the folder Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\PBIRS\CPE, I have set the keys CustomerFeedback and EnableErrorReporting to 0. This got rid of some other requests to external resources.
By connecting to the Report Server via SSMS, going to Properties -> Advanced, I have set the EnableCDNVisuals and EnableCustomVisuals to False. Setting EnableCDNVisuals got rid of another request to an external resource, but EnableCustomVisuals made no apparent change.

Any advice on how to get rid of this request is much welcome.

Re: Browsing report makes requests to external resources

d_gosbell — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 22:07:11 GMT

I'm pretty sure that request to appsource is to check the version of your custom visuals with the custom visual CDN so setting EnableCDNVisuals to False should prevent this. If it is not doing this you should probably raise a support ticket with Microsoft.

Re: Browsing report makes requests to external resources

ottofrello — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 08:01:03 GMT

Thanks for your reply! Would this be the procedure you are referring to, or is that guide only for users of Power BI service (it's not really clear from the description)?

Re: Browsing report makes requests to external resources

d_gosbell — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 21:32:12 GMT

ottofrello wrote:

Thanks for your reply! Would this be the procedure you are referring to, or is that guide only for users of Power BI service (it's not really clear from the description)?

I think that should probably work. But if your company has an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft your IT dept or Microsoft Account Manager should also be able to create support tickets and those should have a better SLA than going via that public link.

Re: Browsing report makes requests to external resources

BarneyT — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 14:48:44 GMT

Hi, did you ever get an answer to this question regarding turning off the json requests to

https://pbivisuals.powerbi.com/approvedResources.json and

https://appsource.powerbi.com/visuals.json

Re: Browsing report makes requests to external resources

ottofrello — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 12:32:46 GMT

Unfortunately, no, I never did manage to find a good solution to the problem.