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cragland
Regular Visitor
8 years ago

Unable to Save to PowerBI Reporting Server

I'm new to PowerBI but have been a SQL Server DBA for years.  We just got through POC of PowerBI and are trying to get this into a Dev environment.  We are unable to load reports either through the S...
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jayjay1
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago

Hi,

 

I was getting the "An error occured while attempting to save the report to Power BI Report Server" error message when trying to publish my PBI reports to PBI Report Server. However, when I downgraded my PBI desktop (optimised for Report Server) to match the Report Server version so in my case uninstalling my desktop version (March 2018) then installing Oct 2017) this did the trick and I was able to publish successfully without any issues. 

 

The other option is to obviously upgrade the Report Server to the latest version (or to match your desktop version) but this should be tested first on non-production systems and it's easier to test locally first before messing with servers. 

 

Hope this helps, 

 

Jay

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    8 years ago

    I had similar issue when I installed March 2018 on our Dev server, Production was still running Oct 2017 version. I was able to install Desktop RS March 2018 version along while leaving the Oct 2017 RS Desktop version. Tricky part is specifying different folders for each installation, this allows you to have multiple RS versions, and at least 1 Service version. If you try to use one Desktop RS version to save to a Power BI Report server with a different version you will get errors like the ones in the original question on this post.