PowerBIModelNotFoundException when publishing Power BI report to Azure Power BI

Hi Anonymous , Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Community Forum.

Yes, Power BI Deployment Pipelines can automatically rebind reports to the correct semantic models during deployments between Dev, Test and Prod, if the reports and datasets are included in the pipeline. You just need to configure dataset rules in the pipeline settings to map each report to the appropriate dataset in each stage. When those rules are in place, deploying from one stage to another will automatically rebind the report, no manual steps required. To fully automate this in your Azure DevOps pipeline, you can use the Power BI REST API to trigger deployments between pipeline stages.

Parameterizing live semantic model connections in PBIX files is not supported. When you connect a report to a Power BI dataset, that connection is hardcoded in the PBIX. You can't change it using parameters, environment variables or PowerShell before publishing. The only way to switch the dataset is after publishing, using the Rebind Report In Group API, which you're already doing correctly.

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