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10 years ago

Power BI Desktop via Citrix?

Is it possible to provide the Power BI Desktop app via Citrix? Has anyone suceeded or failed trying this, a throrough search of the internet isn't returning any results on the subject. Thanks,    ...
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10 years ago

It's good to know that it can work via remote desktop but that doesn't quite fix our issue, here's a little more detail.

 

We want to do a large rollout of Power BI desktop (potentially several thousand machines) but unfortunately one of our key record systems doesn't support versions of IE greater than 9 at present. We have approval for the install of the Power BI desktop software but not of the upgrade of IE meaning we're a bit stuck.

One suggested solution was to run Power BI though Citrix as we already use Citrix to provide Excel and Word amongst other things to some staff. So far I can't see any reference anywhere to someone having done this, the closest I've found is that some people have PowerPivot and Power View working in Excel 2013 via Citrix.

 

Thanks,

    Barney

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4 years ago

HI Barney - our company uses Citrix and a Power BI app. Unforntunately, it is buggy.
Consistently speaking to service desk about issues - it either crashes, freezes or running out of memory. We use large datasets with over 20m rows of data and it struggles. There is a definately a drop in performmance between using the native Desktop Power BI app and the Citrix Power BI app. Am speaking to our IT team for a resolution, but no luck.