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travismorse
Advocate I
10 years ago
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Registry key for Update Notifications?

Anyone know what registry key or file is used to store the "Display update notifications for Power BI Desktop"? I need to set this via an SCCM install package and can't seem to find it anywhere. Reason I need to turn it off is that none of our users have Admin and therefore the client driven update process is useless. Instead I need to get the SCCM package updated monthly with the new Power BI Desktop release and then have my users rerun.

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  • travismorse's avatar
    travismorse
    10 years ago

    Found it.

     

    C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop\User.zip\UserInterface\Settings.xml

    <Entry Type="DisableUpdateNotification" Value="l1" />    - Update Notifications Off

    <Entry Type="DisableUpdateNotification" Value="l0" />    - Update Notifications On

     

    This makes it very difficult to add logic to an install script/package. Very strange they went this way instead of registry values.

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  • travismorse's avatar
    travismorse
    Advocate I
    10 years ago

    Found it.

     

    C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop\User.zip\UserInterface\Settings.xml

    <Entry Type="DisableUpdateNotification" Value="l1" />    - Update Notifications Off

    <Entry Type="DisableUpdateNotification" Value="l0" />    - Update Notifications On

     

    This makes it very difficult to add logic to an install script/package. Very strange they went this way instead of registry values.

    • kcantor's avatar
      kcantor
      Community Champion
      10 years ago

      Now if you could just help us all out and post how to disable the enable custom visualizations button you would be a rockstar. :)

    • carob's avatar
      carob
      New Member
      10 years ago

      Hi there

       

      I am looking to disable Update notification for Power BI Desktop (for my Enterprise Clients) and there does not appear to be a way to do this.  Have you discovered a better way since your last post on this subject?  I can't see the entries in the xml file you refer to.

       

      Thanks you

       

      carob

      • rsrajeev's avatar
        rsrajeev
        New Member
        9 years ago

        I have struggled for months to find a solution to disable update notification for powerBI.

        Here is silent switches which i used to deploy using SCCM and also to disable update notification. Hope this help others..

        msiexec.exe" /i "PBIDesktop_x86_JAN.msi" /qb /norestart ACCEPT_EULA=1 DISABLE_UPDATE_NOTIFICATION=1

        Thanks