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travismorse
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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. Reas...
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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.

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. :)

    • WillT's avatar
      WillT
      Community Admin
      10 years ago
      These are great comments/questions - and something we do want to make easier in the future. Please do go and suggest them on http://ideas.powerbi.com
  • 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

      • travismorse's avatar
        travismorse
        Advocate I
        9 years ago

        Thank you for this! I've passed it on to our SCCM to get added to our install/update script.

    • 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

      • -carl-'s avatar
        -carl-
        New Member
        3 years ago

        Late to the party but I was able to open the MSI with Microsoft Orca and the registry key is 

        Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Power BI Desktop 

        Name: DisableUpdateNotification   Root 2 (meaning HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive)

        Value: 1

        There is also 

        DefaultUICulture (Root2)

        SupportsMultiLanguage (Root 2)

        EnableCustomerExperienceProgram (Root 1 HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive)

        ServiceUrl  (Root 2)

        UpdateCheckUrl (Root 2)

         

        Hope this helps