Power BI Report Server October 2020 update has been released.

We have been using PBI RS for more than 2 years. Every upgrade was wonderful until Oct/2020. A lot of problems, issues and bugs at server side. We installed update of Nov18th but still having problems with: connection strings, scheduled refreshes of SQLS direct query reports, credentials unknown. The strange thing is that everything is ok in Desktop but in the server is not working. We saw a lot of posts and tried many suggested solutions but the problem is not solved. We applied pbix files without enhanced metadata option, which incredibly came selected by default! but is not a solution. We are clearing logs and resetting service, which solved momentarily until something happens (we don’t know what and when) which crashes reports again. We tried to change connection string with PowerShell without success. We created a couple of tickets to receive support but engineers don’t know what is happening, and after 2 weeks there is no definitive solution (in the past we created around 15 tickets solved in 3 days at most). We shared with them log files, configuration files, screenshots, but the solution is not near and ther is no escalation. We restored .pbix from backup folder but names are strange and we needed to identify them manually opening them. Once those are on the server, errors appear. Now there is a mix of pbix files some with simple connection string and some other with explicit connection strings. Don’t know which are ok.

We never faced this kind of situation. Many disappointed technicians, many unhappy users. I don’t think going back to May version is an option. Please Petebro @gboreki and MSFT guys, help us to retake normal operations of PBI RS reports, as always was after an upgrade! Is all of these connected to have received version after a month which was the original plan (Oct instead Sep)?

JCA