topic Re: Differences between PBIDesktop_x64 and PBIDesktopRS_x64 desktop tools in Report Server

Differences between PBIDesktop_x64 and PBIDesktopRS_x64 desktop tools

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 19:42:51 GMT

A question on the difference between the regular Power BI (PBI) desktop tool and the Power BI Report Server (PBIRS) desktop tool -

1. Other than the ability to both publish to the Cloud and save to Report Server, what are the differences between it and the standard PBI desktop tool?

I ask this because PBIDestopRS was last released at End-October. Why is it kept several months behind the PBI desktop tool feature set?

Also, I've seen comments that it's "optimized" for the on-premises server, but cannot find any discussion what that exactly is. We'd like to stay current to the latest (January) feature set, but will need to save to report server. A dilemma.

Can you direct me to a blog or individual that can answer these questions? M. Cameron. Thanks.

Re: Differences between PBIDesktop_x64 and PBIDesktopRS_x64 desktop tools

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 20:31:19 GMT

I'm closing this out. My misunderstanding. I see the desktop versions were updated within 2 days of each other. It was the Report Server software that went through a release in end-October. Devil's in the details.

Re: Differences between PBIDesktop_x64 and PBIDesktopRS_x64 desktop tools

SamLester — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 18:23:20 GMT

Hi, I wrote a blog article yesterday highlighting several differences between these two versions:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/samlester/2018/02/19/understanding-the-differences-between-power-bi...

Thanks,
Sam Lester (MSFT)