Forum Discussion

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
8 years ago
Solved

Power bi desktop rs multiple versions

How many versions of Power BI Desktop RS can you have installed? I upgraded my computer to March 2018 version as I am testing same version of Power BI Report server on a Dev server. Now I need to edi...
Need Help
  • v-chuncz-msft's avatar
    v-chuncz-msft
    8 years ago

    Anonymous,

     

    You may install one for 32-bit version and one for 64-bit version.

pyhchan's avatar
pyhchan
Frequent Visitor
6 years ago

Hi,

You can have 2 versions of Power BI Desktop RS (RS is synced to same version of on-premise Power BI Report Server) on the same PC running side by side.  First make a copy of the current version of the folder and rename it.  Install Power BI Desktop RS new version.  Then delete the old desktop shortcut and make a new one out from C:\Program Files\Microsoft Power BI Desktop RS\bin (PBIDesktop.exe).  Also, create another shortcut to the older version of the Power BI Desktop.

Thanks

Regards

Peter

 

ahpitre2's avatar
ahpitre2
Frequent Visitor
6 years ago

Yes, but on March 2020 I tested this with Desktop Sep 2019 RS 32 bits and Desktop Jan 2020 RS x64. You still can't have 2 RS versions with same architecture (E.g. either both x64 or 32 bits). This is a glaring ommision by Microsoft as installing a 32 bit version next to a X64 is limiting as 32 bit apps. cannot use much memory (some of my reports now produce errors while I test them due to large data size while opened in 32 Desktop RS, these worked OK w/o errors on the X64 Desktop RS version).