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Anonymous
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HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable

Hi,

I have Power BI Report Server (May 2019) installed on SQL Server 2016 Enterprise working perfectly.

But today I was upgrading to the September 2019 version, the installation completed normally, but when I opened the reports the following message was displayed in the browser:

 

HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable

 

I checked everything:

- I checked logged in log files: C: \ Program Files \ Microsoft Power BI Report Server \ PBIRS \ LogFiles, but found no errors.

- I checked if service stopped.

- I uninstalled and installed, but the same error occurred.

But I was able to install Power BI Report Server (September 2019) on another server running SQL Server 2014.

Has anyone had this problem?
Is it a bug in this release, which does not let install in SQL Server 2016, only in SQL 2014?.

Thanks.
_Keny

 

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d_gosbell
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This issue has been reported before, but it only appears to be affecting a small amount of users and as of yet I don't think anyone has been able to isolate the root cause.

 

The existing thread is here https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Report-Server/Getting-503-error-child-process-RSPortal-died-Report-...  it's probably worth adding a comment to that thread as there is a PowerBI team member on that thread trying to capture more information about this issue.

 

 

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Anonymous
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The solution is to install the newest .Net Version on the machine (4.8 in my case). After that, the 503 error is gone. See other thread for details.

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d_gosbell
Super User
Super User

This issue has been reported before, but it only appears to be affecting a small amount of users and as of yet I don't think anyone has been able to isolate the root cause.

 

The existing thread is here https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Report-Server/Getting-503-error-child-process-RSPortal-died-Report-...  it's probably worth adding a comment to that thread as there is a PowerBI team member on that thread trying to capture more information about this issue.

 

 

Anonymous
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Hi,

 

I really appreciate your help.
Thanks.

Anonymous
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The solution is to install the newest .Net Version on the machine (4.8 in my case). After that, the 503 error is gone. See other thread for details.

Anonymous
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Hi,

 

I installed the new release of this link below, but it didn't work.

 

Could you please put the link to download the release?

 

Thanks

_Keny


@Anonymous wrote:

 

I installed the new release of this link below, but it didn't work.

 


Have you tried manually installing a recent version of the .Net Framework as suggested earlier in this thread? This seems to be the fastest workaround for fixing this 503 error.

Anonymous
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Hello,

 

I installed the .NET Framework 4.8 and it worked.

 

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-framework/net48

 

Thank you all.

_Keny

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