Upgrading Power BI Workspace: Content Pack Warning Message

[mchristie]

Hi,

I am trying to upgrade a classic Power BI workspace into a new workspace. When I click the button to upgrade, I receive this warning message: 

We'll make some permanent changes when you upgrade:

Content pack removal Content packs published from this workspace will be removed from AppSource, and you won't be able to publish or update them anymore. They'll be removed from workspaces where they were installed but not personalized.

I do not know which specific Power BI content it thinks is a Content Pack. My hunch was that it was referring to a COVID-19 Tracking pbix file I downloaded and published in Power BI a while back. However, if I make a separate classic workspace for testing, and put that same pbix file into that workspace, I do not get the Content Pack warning when trying to upgrade the workspace. So that must not be it.

Does anyone know how to identify a Content Pack within a Power BI workspace? 

[mchristie]

@_sfrost That's it. Can't believe I didn't see that earlier. Thank you for the info - we do indeed have one single item showing up there, so I will investigate it and go from there. 

[mchristie]

@_sfrost Thank you. We do see Update App there. We have a single App that we automatically push to all of our Power BI users - that's where they all go to access content. We put all of our "finalized/verified" content in the app. So unfortunately we rely quite heavily on it so I am hesitant to try unpbulishing it. We briefly considered that the app might be what it was complaining about, but if we put some of our Power BI content into a test workspace, publish a test app there, and then click the upgrade button, it doesn't throw the Content Pack warning.

We even started going down the path of copying each pbix file into the test workspace, clicking the upgrade button to see if the warning appeared, but this process is taking forever because we have a lot of content and so far the warning never shows in the test workspace.

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@mchristie 

That's a lot of work. Hope the below suggestion helps you!

To see the associated content pack of a classic workspace, you can navigate to the workspace > click on settings at the top of nav bar > View Content Pack

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[_sfrost]

@mchristie 

When you are in a workspace, you should see an option at the top right corner which says Create App or Update App. 

If you see update app there, it means that there is a dependant app on that workspace and it could be the reason why you are seeing that warning. 

You can unpublish the app and try to upgrade again and see if that works!

Refernce: Upgrade classic workspaces to the new workspaces - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

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