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micheledubose
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4 years ago
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Change licensing model for Power BI Report Server

Hello,

 

I've installed Power BI Report Server using our SQL Enterprise Edition + Software Assurance.  There's a requirement to change the licensing model to Power BI Premium.  What is required as far as the installation of Power BI Report Server, in order to change the licensing?

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  • d_gosbell's avatar
    d_gosbell
    4 years ago

    So the only difference as far as installation goes is where you get the license key from,

    see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/report-server/install-report-server#power-bi-report-server-product-key 

     

    In terms of changing the licensing for an already installed instance you may have to uninstall and re-install. As long as you make a backup of your encryption key and rsreportserver.config file all the other data for report server is stored in the ReportServer database. Although it might be worth asking your Microsoft account manager if they are aware of an easier way. I don't think changing this is a very common thing to do.

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  • d_gosbell's avatar
    d_gosbell
    Super User
    4 years ago

    So the only difference as far as installation goes is where you get the license key from,

    see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/report-server/install-report-server#power-bi-report-server-product-key 

     

    In terms of changing the licensing for an already installed instance you may have to uninstall and re-install. As long as you make a backup of your encryption key and rsreportserver.config file all the other data for report server is stored in the ReportServer database. Although it might be worth asking your Microsoft account manager if they are aware of an easier way. I don't think changing this is a very common thing to do.