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mysar
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Power bi data stored location

I made a power bi account and gave my location UAE. when completing all the signup steps and i check my data stored location it was East US 2 (Virginia) but i want my loction somwhere in UAE. Because my client doesn't want to share his data outside the UAE.

Kindly help.

Thanks.

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v-zhangti
Community Support
Community Support

Hi, @mysar 

 

Steps to change the data area.

  • Become the administator of the power-BI tennant.
  • Get backup of an azure tennant administrator. 
  • Request a support ticket using get help (top right of the powerbi menu)
  • State clearly from region you wish to come and go. mention your tennant guid.

You will get a respond from the service dep. with a clearly document how to procede. You make a request with 3 options of downtime (during 6 hours) at least 8 days later than you plan send in the form. Let it sign by your azure tennant administrator (on paper nothing more fancy) scan it an mail it back. After a few days a confirm of stating one of the 3 options as chosen option is given. I did request some response.

 

They do request to make a copy of your work on the tennant. But I did not lose anything. Even datarefreshes using credentials are still working. 

 

There is some impact stating in the migration document.

Impact to customer is as follows:

  • Migration requires ~6 hours down time during which time all migrating resources will be offline.
  • Capacities and Premium workspaces cannot be migrated. The customer must delete all capacities before the migration starts and, if they desire, will be responsible for re-creating them (and move the workspaces back) after the migration completes.
  • Depending on the configuration of current cluster and target cluster, Push Datasets might not be migrated for all customers. In the case that they cannot be migrated, customer needs to delete such datasets manually. Discussion following this request will determine if Push Dataset migration is supported.
  • All Enterprise Gateways need to be re-configured by the users after the migration.
  • Any Excel workbooks using the Analyze in Excel feature may fail to refresh. You may need to update the connection string or re-download the ODC connection for that dataset.
  • Links to Power BI that are embedded in content (e.g., embedded link in SharePoint or Teams) will be broken after migration. The customer will have to re-generate embedded links to replace the pre-migration embedded links.

 

The day after your migration you are again informed that the migration is succesful and they ask you to confirm if all is OK.

 

Best Regards,

Community Support Team _Charlotte

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Shahfaisal
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

Once you sign-up you can't change the data region yourself. But you can migrate your data region.

See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-admin-region-move

 

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