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marmi
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Multiple gateway installations for customers

Hello,   we have several customers, each of them use their own Power BI. Data is located in our server room for each customer. What would you suggest as a cost-efficient way to create gateways (one...
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    v-haibl-msft
    9 years ago

    marmi

     

    Yes, one gateway for one customer. And gateway can only be installed on Windows now.

     

    Best Regards,

    Herbert

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9 years ago

marmi

 

Yes, one gateway for one customer. And gateway can only be installed on Windows now.

 

Best Regards,

Herbert

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marmi
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9 years ago

Ok, thanks for your info

 

Just in case somebody is interested...

 

Windows Containers silent installation can be done by:

 

docker run --rm <your_container_name> powershell c:\<installation_directory>\GatewayInstall.exe /Q

 

you can find Gatewayinstaller.exe in %TEMP% if you run downloadable PowerBIGatewayInstall.exe first on some other machine

 

This installs on-premises data gateway 

c:\ wmic service where started=true get  name, startname

PBIEgwService           NT SERVICE\PBIEgwService

 

C:\>net start

On-premises data gateway service

 

There is no way (that I know of) how to run On-Premises Data Gateway Configurator silently after this with all the input it needs (email,Microsoft credentials,gateway name, recovery key etc.). The configurator is a Microsoft Installer:

C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{0E277C24-0728-4FE0-B2F1-5C7DC7E30DD0}v1.15.6170.1\EgwComponents.msi

 

at this point I ended my study on multiplying gateways with containers. WMWare virtual server is the only solution which we can use for this.