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mcrowe
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5 years ago
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Using Both Power Bi Report Server and Power Bi Services

Our Organization is already using Power Bi Services. There are certain groups within the organization that need to utilize the Power Bi Services and others that would need to utilize Power Bi Report ...
Power Bi Report Server vs. Power Bi Services
  • lbendlin's avatar
    lbendlin
    5 years ago

    Assuming you have a Premium capacity - that includes Power BI Report Server too.  You can set that up in parallel to the Power BI Service Premium SKU, and run both as needed.

     

    There are many (many) things to be aware of

     

    - Power BI Report Server does not have feature parity with Power BI Service.  Some of the Power Query and DAX commands will not work

    - You need a really powerful machine to host Power BI Report Server.  It also requires a SQL Server license but you likely already have that.

    - You need a special Power BI Desktop client ("RS" version) to author content for Power BI Report Server which - you guessed it- does not have feature parity with the regular Power BI Desktop.

     

    etc etc

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lbendlin
Super User
5 years ago

Assuming you have a Premium capacity - that includes Power BI Report Server too.  You can set that up in parallel to the Power BI Service Premium SKU, and run both as needed.

 

There are many (many) things to be aware of

 

- Power BI Report Server does not have feature parity with Power BI Service.  Some of the Power Query and DAX commands will not work

- You need a really powerful machine to host Power BI Report Server.  It also requires a SQL Server license but you likely already have that.

- You need a special Power BI Desktop client ("RS" version) to author content for Power BI Report Server which - you guessed it- does not have feature parity with the regular Power BI Desktop.

 

etc etc