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Innerise
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8 years ago
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Preview Features missing

Hi Everyone   We're implementing Power BI at our organisation with an on-prem Report Server.   We've downloaded 'Microsoft Power BI Desktop (Optimized for Power BI Report Server - March 2018)' fr...
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  • v-yulgu-msft's avatar
    v-yulgu-msft
    8 years ago

    Hi Innerise,

     

    There is no official document written about this. But PG from Power BI Report Servre group has confirmed in this blog.

     

    Besides, Riccardo Muti mentioned that this idea has been moved to the Report Server category.

     

    Best regards,

    Yuliana Gu

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v-yulgu-msft
Microsoft Employee
8 years ago

Hi Innerise,

 

 

Preview features are not supported by Power BI Report Server, in both current desktop version (Optimized for Power BI Report Server - March 2018) and previous version. So, the "Preview Features" option is not visible, this is by design.

 

Just to make sure it wasn't to do with the fact that we're running the 'Optimized for Power BI Report Server' version of Power BI, we've installed the regular version, but are having the same issues.

Which regular version did you installed? I checked in Version: 2.57.5068.721 64-bit (April 2018) and Version: 2.56.5023.1021 64-bit (March 2018), the "Preview Features" is available in them two.

 

Regards,

Yuliana Gu

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Innerise
New Member
8 years ago

Hi Yuliana. Thanks for your reply.

 

Ah OK, I wasn't aware that preview features aren't supported with an on-prem Power BI Report Server. That would explain why I can't see the option in the Power BI version that is optimised for Report Server. Do you happen to have the URL where Microsoft state this - I can't find it anywhere?

 

I've just checked the non-optimised desktop version and I can see the preview features listed, as you've suggested.

 

Thanks,

Innerise

  • v-yulgu-msft's avatar
    v-yulgu-msft
    Microsoft Employee
    8 years ago

    Hi Innerise,

     

    There is no official document written about this. But PG from Power BI Report Servre group has confirmed in this blog.

     

    Besides, Riccardo Muti mentioned that this idea has been moved to the Report Server category.

     

    Best regards,

    Yuliana Gu

    • Innerise's avatar
      Innerise
      New Member
      8 years ago

      Thank you for your help, Yuliana - very useful!

      • David5's avatar
        David5
        Regular Visitor
        7 years ago

        Hello,

         

        I need to anable the composite model. With preview feature missing do you have an idea how is possible to create this model alternativelly?

         

        Would appreciate any tip.

         

        Regards,

        David