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Candaz007
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8 years ago

On-Prem vs. Cloud?

Hi,   We are just about to embark on our PowerBI journey after doing some preliminary POC demos late last year.   Since we already use SSRS quite a bit, one question we are trying to get clarity ...
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Anonymous
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8 years ago
Hi des,

Glad the info was helpful.

You are right that some of the custom visuals do not work under the On-Prem server, but others do, I'm not sure how you find out if they do or don't other than by trying to build and deploy a test PBIX. For example the ArcGIS mapping visual does not function. I have posted questions about this, but had no real response from MS. I think it is likely that where a custom visual is developed by a 3rd party who wants to sign users up to a monthly subscription in order to use the "upgraded" edition of the visual then it is likely to remain a cloud only visual.

Regards
Rob

 

 

 

 

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des
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8 years ago

Thanks good to know,

For the custom visuals that you have used that do work did you have to install a server component or does it just get taken across when you deploy it to the server?

thanks,

Des

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    Anonymous
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    8 years ago

    The custom visuals get rolled up into the PBIX file as you deploy. So they get extracted back out and rendered when the user views the report. No need to install anything on the server.