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Advocate I

9 years ago

On premise Power BI report server and desktop programs

We are thinking of having an on-prem power bi report server and also using the cloud service in the future. Do we need to think of the future architecture with having two seperate desktop programs fo...

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Microsoft Employee

9 years ago

I'm pretty sure you use the same Power BI Desktop application to author reports for both onpremise and web-service reports.

ShaWo
Advocate I
9 years ago
Edit: Forgot to say Thank you Phil_Seamark :)

Okay, that sounds good. It just gets pretty confusing when half of the documentation speaks of "Power bi desktop" and half of "Power BI desktop optimized for power bi report server"

Examples of both
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/reportserver-quickstart-powerbi-report/
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlrsteamblog/2017/05/17/a-closer-look-at-power-bi-report-server/
- vanessafvg
  Community Champion
  9 years ago
  ShaWo there is a specific power bi desktop for SSRS
  
  https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/reportserver-install-powerbi-desktop/
  - ShaWo
    Advocate I
    9 years ago
    Thank you vanessafvg, I'm aware of this and this is the source of all the confusion for me, since different sources within microsoft refer to different programs. For example the two documents I linked in my previous message