Best way to deploy Power BI desktop app for multiple users

[vstanchev]

Hello Team,

Can you please advise with relevant articles what is nowadays the best way to deploy Power BI desktop application for multiple users in organization?

Is it Intune, SCCM or something else?

Please advise of afrticles? 

Many thanks

[v-yiruan-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @vstanchev ，

Power BI Desktop is a tool for data analysis and report creation, it is free and needs to be downloaded and installed on your local computer. It cannot be used to share content (reports, dashboards and apps etc.) with others. If you want to share an app with others, you can create the reports in Power BI Desktop and publish it to Power BI Service. Then you can refer to this official document to publish an app. For more information about the features and differences between Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service, you can read the official documentation below.

Comparing Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service

If you are asking about installing the Power BI Desktop application for multiple people at the same time, I'm afraid there is no good way to do it, they need to install it on their own computers one by one... They can refer the content in the following documentation to get the latest version of Power BI Desktop and install it.

Get Power BI Desktop

Best Regards

[robertpeeples]

v-yiruan-msft,

Is your answer to the best way to deploy Power BI still "one-by-one"? I created a package to deploy on InTune Admin Center, but it does do anything. Not sure why. Do you have any insight into that?

robertpeeples

[aj1973]

Hi @vstanchev 

Power Bi desktop is for developers, i don't see the reason to share it between multiple users. however every developer can install the application in his machine and then share the developped report in the service for further edition within all users/dev.