Automating installation of PowerBI Gateway service

[trinpm]

Hi community,

I am trying to apply devops practice to install powerBI gateway in a windows 2016 host.

I currently downloaded "PowerBIGatewayInstaller.exe" from [*]. Executing this installer guided me through few UI where I mainly clicked on "Next" button and accept the terms of usage, etc.; I wonder if there is a way I can install this service silently via PowerShell command. The way I understand is the installer should support some parameters so I can input in PowerShell but I couldn't find a instruction on it.

Do you know if there is some way to achieve this?

Thank you,

Nguyen

[*] https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/gateway/

[GilbertQ]

Hi there

Currently I am sure you can silently install the Gateway, the challenge is that you need to configure the Gateway with a user account once the installation is complete?

[trinpm]

Hi Gilbert,

For now I just need to have the installation completes silently (i.e., as soon as it appears in C:/ProgramFiles or Windows search). I have been trying using a tool like "Silent Install" (http://www.silentinstall.org/) to automate but still not succeed yet.

Which tool did you use to silently install the Gateway? 

[Anonymous]

@trinpm exploring this as well, were you able to get this installed silently?

Seen a few posts about this but no definite answer.

1. https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Silent-Installation-Power-BI-Gateway-Personal-with-SCCM-201...
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/data-integration/gateway/service-gateway-install
  • SCCM performs installations under the SYSTEM account.
2. https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/On-premises-data-gateway-silent-install/m-p/304047
3. https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/On-premises-data-gateway-silent-install-script/m-p/520054

The data gateway ps cmdlets does not have an options to update. --> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/gateway/overview?view=datagateway-ps