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Anonymous
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4 years ago
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Workspaces V2 bulk upgrade does nothing

Hi All   I'm trying to run the bulk update on our groups to convert them to v2 workspaces. The groups queue and I can see them with status pending, however, after a few hours they drop the status w...
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  • edhans's avatar
    edhans
    4 years ago

    No, empty isn't the issue. that is actually a great use case. Upgrade and delete. You cannot delete the original workspaces. I upgraded several thousand early in 2021 like this from the admin panel.

    You might want to open a support ticket. Support | Microsoft Power BI It could be something has changed since then. Bulk Upgrade exists for example. I had to do it in batches of 100. But there could be an issue with your permissions or tenant.


  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    4 years ago

    edhans and anyone else who lands here...

     

    The answer is that MS quietly added a new tenant setting to disable the upgrade of v1 workspaces when they are empty. Turning this off resolved the issue.

     

    I found this out when going back to check the timeline blog which was updated 18 Mar 2022 Updated timeline for upgrading classic workspaces | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI

     

    (Tis a moot point now, as I'll just wait for the upgrade and the empty workspace clean-up MS will do in turn.)

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edhans
Community Champion
4 years ago

No, empty isn't the issue. that is actually a great use case. Upgrade and delete. You cannot delete the original workspaces. I upgraded several thousand early in 2021 like this from the admin panel.

You might want to open a support ticket. Support | Microsoft Power BI It could be something has changed since then. Bulk Upgrade exists for example. I had to do it in batches of 100. But there could be an issue with your permissions or tenant.


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Anonymous
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4 years ago

Thanks edhans. I'll do that.