Categories: Power BI

Power BI PBIR Format Admin Setting

The Power BI Enhanced Report Format (PBIR) will soon become the default, and that’s a good thing because it significantly makes git integration easier. You can already enable it in the preview features of Power BI Desktop (also enable PBIP and TMDL to make git integration of the model itself much easier).

There’s also a new admin setting in Power BI/Fabric, which is on by default:

I strongly encourage to keep it on 🙂 It will make certain tasks easier:

downloading reports (check out the blog post Export a Power BI Report that cannot be Downloaded on how to do this with the Fabric CLI)
fetching properties. For example, using the Fabric CLI you can loop over your reports and extract the semantic model ID to which the report is connected to.
working with multiple persons on the same report
did I already mention git integration?

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Koen Verbeeck

Koen Verbeeck is a Microsoft Business Intelligence consultant at AE, helping clients to get insight in their data. Koen has a comprehensive knowledge of the SQL Server BI stack, with a particular love for Integration Services. He's also a speaker at various conferences.