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mjbernier
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5 years ago

Excel Workbook support, Office Online Server, and Windows Server 2019

We have a business need to host Excel workbooks alongside other published Power BI and Paginated (SSRS) reports on our Power BI Report Servers. We have tested Office Online Server (OOS) on one of our...
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ponnusamy
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5 years ago

mjbernier : Just curious , why did you not choose "Sharepoint" to host the files? Its scalable and can be controlled as you want. It integrates well with Power BI as well.

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    mjbernier
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    5 years ago

    We use SharePoint Online, which is not supported as a data source for Power BI Report Server. Plus, we wanted to take advantage of the "one stop shopping" that Excel workbook integration provides to place all the reporting in a single location for consumers.