Registry key for Update Notifications?

[travismorse]

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.

[travismorse · Accepted solution]

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.

[carob]

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]

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-]

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 

[rsrajeev]

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]

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

[kcantor]

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]

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