topic Re: 180 days evaluation copy has expired - help with licensing PowerBI Report Server in Report Server

180 days evaluation copy has expired - help with licensing PowerBI Report Server

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 10:24:20 GMT

Till today we used PowerBI Report Server evaluation version for 180 days.

Suddenly it stops working, without any errors, but when I checked the .log files I realized that the license had expired.

Now we have 2 options:

To use PowerBI Desktop version for the reports;
To buy e license key.

Question 1: In our company only few people use PowerBI - 2-3 viewers and only me - creator and manager of the reports. Can you advise me what to do with the licensing, how does it cost for our situation and what are the steps?

Question 2: Is it possible to restore the .pbix files (reports) from the server, are they located somewhere and how to restore it?

Re: 180 days evaluation copy has expired - help with licensing PowerBI Report Server

BrookBracewell — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:20:01 GMT

I appear to be in the same boat. I wil be moving to the Power BI product as it is more cost effective. but I need to retreive my .pbix files

Re: 180 days evaluation copy has expired - help with licensing PowerBI Report Server

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:26:53 GMT

Just run the installation of the PowerBI Server again, I think repair in Add or Remove Programs works too, than choose Developer mode and it works again. Than you can export your .pbix files.

This is working solution, because I couldn’t find any other way to recover the report files.

Re: 180 days evaluation copy has expired - help with licensing PowerBI Report Server

BrookBracewell — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 11:12:35 GMT

Thanks for the advise, it would definitly have some legs, if there was not errors in the repair process- it does not seem happy with the .exe file and is failing to load up.

I will have to get back to the drawing board and work out the problem there.

Re: 180 days evaluation copy has expired - help with licensing PowerBI Report Server

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:28:58 GMT

it is possible to extract the PBIX files directly fomr the backend DB if you need to

See this

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Report-Server/Access-report-files-after-evaluation-period-expired/m-p/437670#M6083