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DEMCOLO
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Accessing Power BI Reporting Services Data Sources in Power BI reports

Hello, I am very new to Power BI and I am trying to put all of the pieces together so please forgive my ignorance.   We are wanting to deploy Power BI to our organization.  We are currently testin...
PowerBI Reporting Server Data Sources
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    d_gosbell
    1 year ago
    DEMCOLO wrote:

    I have created data sources on the PowerBI reporting server to on prem sql servers similar to the data sources that we have on our SQL Server Reporting server.  Should those users with the PowerBI Pro licenses be able to access these data sources through the PowerBI desktop that they downloaded from the reporting server (current Version: 2.129.2203.0 64-bit (May 2024))? 

    No, those connections are only available to paginated reports.

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1 year ago
DEMCOLO wrote:

I have created data sources on the PowerBI reporting server to on prem sql servers similar to the data sources that we have on our SQL Server Reporting server.  Should those users with the PowerBI Pro licenses be able to access these data sources through the PowerBI desktop that they downloaded from the reporting server (current Version: 2.129.2203.0 64-bit (May 2024))? 

No, those connections are only available to paginated reports.