Power BI Report Server

Power BI Report Server  is a new product which can be used to host both Power BI reports and SSRS reports.

Currently beta version is available   at https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/report-server/

Below are the few key notable aspects of  Power Bi Report Server

• PowerBI Report Server will be  part of power BI premium package  which avoids per user licensing .
• PowerBI Report Server can be used as mixed environment both for on premise and cloud hosted environment

Few Notable points on Power BI  report management  are  

• PowerBI Report Server has a similar web portal as Reporting services which can host  both both Power BI reports and SSRS reports as shown below
• Most of the  report server management properties are similar to SSRS report server

As shown in below  figure I have created few report folders for SSRS Paginated report and Power BI reports

I have uploaded a Power BI report file   as shown below

As shown it gives a range of options to view manage and edit   the report

Below report shows the Power BI report view when opened in portal,the report is built using Analysis services data a source,currently as of today in beta version  power bi reports  deployed on to the  power bi report manager can only use live data source.

Power BI Report Server and Power BI Cloud integration:

Power BI Report server reports can be pinned to PowerBi cloud dashboards


Below steps need to be followed for the integration

Report configuration need be updated for cloud integration as shown below

Report Manager needs to be updated with the power bi cloud details  in user settings of report manager as shown below

As the integrations steps have been addressed now reports can be pinned  as below by clicking

the below selected section

Upon selection it asks which cloud dashboard the report needs to be pinned as shown below

Upon selection of the report item it gives option to select the workspace and dashboard hosted on the Power Bi cloud as shown below

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