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DebbieE
Community Champion
6 years ago
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Office 365 groups creating Classing Workspaces (Groups) in Power BI Service

Ive gone into Power BI admin and to workspaces   We have 66 Old Classic Workspaces (Groups) cluttering Power BI that really need removing. They are needed as an Office 365 Group but they arent need...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Hi DebbieE ,

    Yes. Actually there already be one topic about preventing create classic workspace automatically when create Office 365 group as mentioned in my previous post. If the number of votes reaches a certain number, the relevant team will develop this feature so that this feature may be implemented in the near future. You can vote here and add comments to speed up the process. Thank you.

    Best Regards

    Rena

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
6 years ago

Hi DebbieE ,

Firstly, you need to be the admin of the related workspace if delete some one workspace. Then complete the following steps:

1. Confirm with the related users whether the contents(dashboards,reports or content packs) in these classic workspaces which will be deleted can be deleted. If some contents need to be keep, the related users can store them in another place before delete.

2. After confirmed, delete the published or installed content packs which created from these workspaces first

3. Upgrade these classic workspaces to new workspace

4. Delete the related workspaces

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-upgrade-your-classic-workspaces-to-the-new-workspace-experience-public-preview-is-rolling-out/

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Report-Server/Deleting-a-Power-BI-Workspace-but-keeping-the-Office-365-Group/td-p/551506

It seems you already done the above steps, so I'm not sure whether I understand your requirement correctly, if no, please correct me and provide more details. Thank you.

Best Regards

Rena

  • DebbieE's avatar
    DebbieE
    Community Champion
    6 years ago

    I was hoping there would be an easier option. Its going to be very difficult asking to become admin of all those groups when alot of the people who use them dont use Power BI and wont understand what im talking about

     

    This is I thinka really problematic area if power BI. People are getting overwhelmed with the amount of un useful App Workspaces

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      6 years ago

      Hi DebbieE ,

      Yes, it might be. But only the admin of workspaces can delete them, and you can only delete them one by one in Power BI Service since you still want to keep these Office 365 groups.

      Best Regards

      Rena

      • DebbieE's avatar
        DebbieE
        Community Champion
        6 years ago

        This means I have to go round to every owner to see if its possible to add me as admin to to this. They arent going to really understand why as many of them dont use Power BI. surely there should be a fix for this?