August Power BI Data Gateway - no command line options to download?

[travismorse]

Please tell me that it isn't true that there are no command line options on the August PowerBIGatewayInstall.exe to download the enterprise and/or personal gateway binaries (like all other Microsoft installers)? Our servers do not have access to the internet and per the documentation I created proxy exceptions to let the enterprise gateway to work but the new stub installer can't download the installer files because those URLs/Ports are not defined in your install documentation!

[v-qiuyu-msft]

Hi @travismorse,

Currently, PowerBIGatewayInstall.exe combines both Enterprise and personal gateways into one single installation file. During the installation process we need to select a gateway type. In my opinion, once we select the gateway, the corresponding gateway configuration file will be downloaded behind the screen and install it at the same time. This process will require Internet connection. For more information, please refer to this article: Gateways July update – going beyond Power BI.

If you have any question, please feel free to ask.

Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu

[travismorse]

Thank you but this doesn't help. 1) you don't follow the Microsoft standards for your installers and have a command line option to download the install binaries so that they can be used offline and 2) You haven't updated your documentation for the URLs/Ports needed to run the gateway to also include the info needed to download the installers.

Our corporate security group does not like our servers having access to the Internet and any exception needs to be approved with vendor documentation stating precisely what ports need to be opened.