PowerBI automatic version update on server machine without Microsoft Store
Hi, I have an issue with installing PowerBI so that it upgrades automatically on a server machine. I am connecting from my laptop via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) with stationary hi-spec PC, which has PowerBI Desktop installed on it. Unfortunately PowerBI does not upgrade automatically to the newest version. I have read that: "To get the Power BI desktop to update automatically, you need to download the Microsoft Store version of Power BI Desktop , which is only available on Windows 10." Unfortunately this PC is confirgured as Windows Server 2019, so I am not able to install this version via Microsoft Store: As MS wrote: "The Microsoft Store and the Microsoft Store for Business are not supported on Windows Server 2019. All applications must be installed using PowerShell." I am not familiar with PowerShell, but when I found some scripts there were based on .exe / .msi installation, which I assume would not solve the issue with automatic upgrade. Could anyone please advise how to install PowerBI that upgrades automatically on PC configured as Windows Server 2019 ? 🙄
Excel Workbook support, Office Online Server, and Windows Server 2019
We have a business need to host Excel workbooks alongside other published Power BI and Paginated (SSRS) reports on our Power BI Report Servers. We have tested Office Online Server (OOS) on one of our development servers and it works exactly as we need. The end users are excited to add this capability to make PBIRS a "one stop shop" for internal reports. We have multiple business domains, and we plan to install one OOS instance per domain. However, one of the production servers we intend to use is running Windows Server 2019, and Microsoft does not appear to support OOS instances on a 2019 box. If this is the case, how can we provide Excel workbook support on PBIRS? A short term solution would be to stand up a separate 2016 server (which we'd rather not do), but even if we did that what happens to Excel support when 2016 reaches end-of-life?
