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Petebro's avatar
Petebro
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5 years ago

Power BI Report Server October 2020 update has been released.

Hello,   I am pleased to announce we have released an update to the Power BI Report Server (October 2020) with several fixes to problems commonly reported here on the Power BI Community Forums.  Th...
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jimv2000's avatar
jimv2000
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5 years ago

I managed to fix this. I tried a fresh install on my own PC and everything worked fine, which led me to think that something was messed up with the update process. I then turned off the Power BI service on the server, renamed C:/Program Files/Microsoft Power BI Report Server, and ran the installer again with the "Repair" option. Once it was done, I copied the config files from the old install folder to the new one. These files were:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Power BI Report Server\PBIRS\Portal\RSPortal.exe.config
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Power BI Report Server\PBIRS\PowerBI\RSPowerBI.exe.config
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Power BI Report Server\PBIRS\ReportServer\rsreportserver.config
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Power BI Report Server\PBIRS\ReportServer\rssrvpolicy.config
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Power BI Report Server\PBIRS\ReportServer\web.config
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Power BI Report Server\PBIRS\RSHostingService\RSHostingService.exe.config

I don't know that all these configs were necessary, but I copied them anyway just to be safe. Also, I did not try just doing a straight repair first...that might have been enough to fix it. The rename/repair/replace definitely fixed it. Now my dashboards that were broken are refreshing like they should.