Change licensing model for Power BI Report Server

[micheledubose]

Hello,

I've installed Power BI Report Server using our SQL Enterprise Edition + Software Assurance.  There's a requirement to change the licensing model to Power BI Premium.  What is required as far as the installation of Power BI Report Server, in order to change the licensing?

[d_gosbell · Accepted solution]

So the only difference as far as installation goes is where you get the license key from,

see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/report-server/install-report-server#power-bi-report-server... 

In terms of changing the licensing for an already installed instance you may have to uninstall and re-install. As long as you make a backup of your encryption key and rsreportserver.config file all the other data for report server is stored in the ReportServer database. Although it might be worth asking your Microsoft account manager if they are aware of an easier way. I don't think changing this is a very common thing to do.