Migrate Existing Native SSRS Reports To Power BI Report Server

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In this article, we will talk about the step-by-step procedure of migrating existing SSRS Reports to the Power BI Report Server.

Many organizations are already using SSRS reports for their organizations. For them, there is one challenge; i.e., how they can migrate their existing reports to Power BI Report Server.

The main issue in their mind is, how can they make the migration successful. This article is an answer to their questions.

For SSRS, the report server has been configured in two ways.

Based on the mode of the existing SSRS mode, we can migrate the reports from On-Premise SSRS to Power BI report server.

In this article, we will migrate the SSRS reports from the Native Mode of SSRS to Power BI Report Server.

So, let’s get started!

Step 1

Make sure about the Source and destination Server.

To perform the migration from SSRS to Power BI Report Server, we need Local Administrator rights to perform the migration.

Step 2

Check the Source and Destination Server’s Web Portal URL by opening it.

The following screenshot shows the screenshot of the web portal of SSRS and Power BI. If you don’t know about the web portal URL of your server, open the Report Server Configuration Manager, from the web portal option we can find the option for the same.

Step 3

We have following SSRS report in our source. We will migrate the same report to the Power BI Report Server.

Step 4

Use the following developed script and place it in any physical location of the server. This is the OOTB migration script provided by Microsoft. We can download the file using the this URL.

Once the file is downloaded, create any folder on the hard drive and place the file within it.