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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
    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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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

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-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