topic Re: June 2018 Release of Power BI Report Server? in Report Server

June 2018 Release of Power BI Report Server?

messerjc — Thu, 31 May 2018 23:22:43 GMT

Our team's migration project to PBIRS has been delayed a few months, but I'm crossing my fingers that we'll be able to move forward in June. Now that we're closing in on June, and I believe the original idea was quarterly releases for Report Server...does anyone know if we can plan on seeing a new release in the next few weeks? Thanks!

Re: June 2018 Release of Power BI Report Server?

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:52:02 GMT

I would expect the next version to drop the end of July at the earliest. With the last one being towards the end of March. The cycle and support timeline is pointing towards a late July / Early August.

Re: June 2018 Release of Power BI Report Server?

messerjc — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:38:33 GMT

Thanks, that's about what I've been guessing too. Crossing my fingers for a mid-June release because I don't know what kind of window I'll have to worth with, and I haven't found any specifics elsewhere on features.

Re: June 2018 Release of Power BI Report Server?

chrisfin — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 00:52:33 GMT

The plan is to do three releases a year, and we're shooting to keep that consistent, so we're expecting to see the next release of the server come in July as mentioned, though it might slip into early August because of the all the work we're doing to land the initial preview of RDL reports in Power BI Premium (as was pointed out on Twitter today by some eagle-eyed users viewing the Dynamics 365 release docs).

Re: June 2018 Release of Power BI Report Server?

messerjc — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 16:08:57 GMT

Well that's good (and interesting) news all around, thanks Chris! I'll have to see how things progress over here the next month or so, maybe we can hold off for that July/August release since the vast majority of what we do is still SSRS and RDL based, and probably will be for a while.

Re: June 2018 Release of Power BI Report Server?

pbx — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:58:15 GMT

With all the bugs introduced and reintroduced every release, you may want to try with the latest version now, fully test it so that you know what to expect.

Re: June 2018 Release of Power BI Report Server?

messerjc — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 17:02:20 GMT

Yeah we have the March release on a dev server and have been experimenting a bit there. We'll just have to see how the timelines fall...other issues at play on our end unfortunately!

Re: June 2018 Release of Power BI Report Server?

FilLob — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 14:57:39 GMT

Hi all!

This page shows the support timeline to PBIRS so far. What a pitty RS will be available quite later than the desktop version 😕

Cumps,

Fil

Re: June 2018 Release of Power BI Report Server?

DaveW — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:47:09 GMT

Hey, just wondering how we get the function option of hiding the filters from published PBIRS reports.

Having the option to remove the filters from published reports would help in reducing the access to the complete dataset by users. The work around is tailoring tables for each report which is time consuming. RLS would be another neat function here:)

How do we get this through for the next PBIRS release coming soon...

Re: June 2018 Release of Power BI Report Server?

chrisfin — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 23:01:05 GMT

We have both of these items on our backlog, but it's unlikely these will show up in the next release of PBIRS.

Re: June 2018 Release of Power BI Report Server?

DaveW — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 08:21:42 GMT

Thanks Chris, its really important that this one gets up as it is really vital for world peace and harmony...

My bugbear with the backlog is that seeds can be planted there and time can elapse like your children growing up so quickly infront of your eyes; but the seeds don't get watered or given any daylight and hence don't grow into the mature plants that give enjoyment to others.

Please don't let the seeds wither and I beg you to contribute to the enhanced enjoyment in the world.

thanks, Dave

P.S. I used several metaphors, probably more than the prescribed allowance but please feel my pain. Please fix the backlog-under_review-planned-started mayhem that is stifling effective timely improvements in your lovely product.

Re: June 2018 Release of Power BI Report Server?

pbx — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:08:57 GMT

Once again MS is showing signs of ADHD, and focusing all of its energy in this department on bringing paginated reports to the cloud, while competitors are adding more and more features to the on-premise offerings and don't really have this split personality of cloud first, maybe-if-you-scream-loud-enough on-premise later.

Re: June 2018 Release of Power BI Report Server?

messerjc — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:45:05 GMT

Well, I can't speak for any one else of course, but since we're not even using Power BI proper right now and we're looking at PBI Report Server as our bridge to EVENTUALLY start using PBI components...I'm perfectly fine with 3 or 4 releases of Report Server a year. Part of me likes the idea that those using the service more aggressively will work out the kinks before us on-premise folks get the code running in our local environments. That said - Microsoft REALLY needs to stick to that release schedule so we don't start feeling like leftovers who are just getting the scraps of the "Premium Service" users. I'd prefer quarterly releases, but 3 a year is acceptable.

Re: June 2018 Release of Power BI Report Server?

mattharling — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 12:21:55 GMT

Sooo Chris, it's July. Any news on when we can expect this release? If it is coming in July we need to plan this in.

Re: June 2018 Release of Power BI Report Server?

Lorian — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 07:09:42 GMT

Early August. At least that's finally a relatively straight answer from Microsoft about it.

Thanks @DaveW for making me laugh... "really vital for world peace and harmony..." agreed, I feel like I get blamed by my company for Microsoft's late releases. "It's coming in June possibly, no now it's July, wait, August."

Re: June 2018 Release of Power BI Report Server?

DaveW — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 07:23:10 GMT

Thanks for the feedback Lorian, I love not being serious some of the time.

I do wonder if MS got a chuckle and whether my single response can save the planet and more importantly, your company from blaming you for the delay in features.

I got an update from the ideas page that I'm supporting; for the option to remove Filters from PBIRS published reports, that it would not be included in the next release which is due in July but probably not August now, which means for such an important security feature, I'll probably have to wait around 8 months since supporting the idea on the ideas page. I think the idea was raised around 20 months ago. This is just so average and it really got me thinking how poor the ideas to reality train for PBIRS really is...

Re: June 2018 Release of Power BI Report Server?

Ccparkhill — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 08:20:48 GMT

Based on previous releases you need to factor in at least another month after the initial release date for bug fix builds to be issued:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/report-server/changelog

Re: June 2018 Release of Power BI Report Server?

chrisfin — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 16:39:00 GMT

Yes, I think it's fair to say we'll not have something until early August - I know it's frustrating to have these delays, but I'm trying to be as transparent as possible around timing so you all can plan accordingly.

Re: June 2018 Release of Power BI Report Server?

prashant_ora — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 09:58:54 GMT

But still waiting for the answer, when we can expect the release of next power bi server.

Re: June 2018 Release of Power BI Report Server?

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:11:26 GMT

Chris has answered this as early August. So I would say expect around the 7th or 8th August as they normally like a midweek release.

We have tried numerous times to get roadmaps etc but with no luck. Ultimately the release will contain imporvements from the cloud server version. On-Premise is really now Power Bi Lite. A version that contains anything easy to implement from the cloud version.