report server January 2020 Power BI Desktop RS download url issue

[dpFr33]

Hi

After installing Power BI Report Server january 2020 update, the download Power BI Desktop link is not January 2020 Power BI Desktop RS but the september 2019 version!

Regards
Denis

[messerjc]

There's a comment over here that a January 2020 Power BI Desktop release is not expected - which I commented doesn't make sense because for Report Server the Desktop verison is supposed to be a rollup of the previous months between the last and the current release.  https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-report-server-january-2020-feature-summary/

[d_gosbell]

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@messerjc wrote:

There's a comment over here that a January 2020 Power BI Desktop release is not expected - which I commented doesn't make sense because for Report Server the Desktop verison is supposed to be a rollup of the previous months between the last and the current release.  https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-report-server-january-2020-feature-summary/

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Yeah, I think that person is talking about the cloud version of desktop which is a silly comment to make on blog post for PBIRS.

I have a hacky workaround...

If you go to https://aka.ms/pbireportserver it will start trying to download report server - cancel that then click on the link to download manually and this will take you to a page with links to both the Server and Desktop downloads.

[d_gosbell]

Apparently there will be an updated release published in the coming weeks to fix the link in the portal.

[Anonymous]

Do you know where/how I can monitor the status of these things?

[d_gosbell]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Do you know where/how I can monitor the status of these things?

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The only way I know is to go to https://aka.ms/pbireportserver and open the details section and check the version and published date. It currently still has a published date of Jan 27th so a new update has not been published yet. 

[messerjc]

Just updated our QA environment to the January 2020 release and can confirm, the download link from the Reports portal links here:

https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2103723

Which then redirects to here:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=57271

Can't really test out this deployment until we have the right Power BI Desktop!