Migration from Power BI per User to Power BI per Capacity

[SonyaZapryanova]

Hello! We need to migrate from Power BI per User to Power BI per Capacity. Except from purchasing the Premium version I would like to know what are the actuals steps to be taken to move all our data and dashboards. Is this a manual process or there is some easier way to do this?

[ibarrau · Accepted solution]

Hi. If you have already analyzed the capacity considering the size of the models, the amount of users, etc. Then it would be writing a script to change the storage, it's not necessary a migration. It's changing a check at the workspaces.

You can use the Power Bi Rest API in order to "Assign Workspace to Capacity". You can start getting the workspaces with PPU, loop them assigning the new capacity (premium one). That will convert current workspaces from PPU to Premium.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/admin/capacities-assign-workspaces-to-capacity

Consider you can use power bi cmdlets for powershell or SimplePBI library for Python to make the script easier.

I hope that helps

P/D Also if are Admin and you don't have many workspaces you can open one by one manually and change the capacity.