Sending Client PBIX File for them to publish and share.. what if the file is too big?

[Anonymous]

Hi all - I've finished a project/report for one of my clients. Usually, I'd be in their enviornment and I'm able to publish and share with all of their users. In this case, their IT team said it'd be much quicker/easier for them to take the file and publish themselves.

The PBIX file I have is way too big to send over emai. Is my only option to send it as a PBIT file instead? So they'll just have to reconnect the sources themselves? Is there another workaround for this? My ideal scenario is just to send them the PBIX so they don't have to jump through hoops if they don't know how to do this..

Thoughts?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ，

What is the size of your pbix file? First of all, you may consider to reduce the pbix file size by referring to the following links.

Data reduction techniques for Import modeling

How to Reduce the Size of Power BI file in a few Steps

How to reduce your Power BI model size by 90%!

Then upload it to Power BI Service by Get Data. For the maximum dataset size per capacity, please refer to the following table. Finally, give a proper access of the report your clients so they can download report file.

Maximum dataset sizes per capacity

Download report

If you just want to share the data source information with your clients, you can do so by following the link below.

How to create a PBIDS connection file

Power BI Data Source (PBIDS) Files

Best Regards