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Cubist
Advocate II
8 years agoPower BI Desktop Publish Button Disabled - Possible regression bug
Posting this as a new thread to avoid any confusion, as I just realized the old thread was marked solved. The Power BI Publish button is greyed out in the desktop app. I've duplicated this on tw...
sonofsmog
3 years agoNew Member
I had this question and I will answer it for whoever else comes along. If you create and publish a pbix to another source, say an on premises Power BI Report Server, and then open it from there you will not be able to Publish it to the Power BI service. You will need to save it as a local pbix file and reopen it. After that the publish button will be available again. It would be nice is Microsoft mentioned this.