Power BI Updates break on-premises Gateway

[LPA]

Hello everyone,

our team is using the on-premises Power BI gateway to access an mssql database and continuously update the datasets for our reports in the webapp. However, the scheduled dataset-refresh has been interrupted multiple times now already due to "no gateway being available". While we could fix this issue by updating the gateway on our server, we noticed that these outages are in sync with the Power BI releases. It seems that everytime there is an update for Power BI the then-most-recent version of the gateway becomes incompatible with the newest version of Power BI.

Is there a way to automatically update the gateway version or another way to circumvent this in the future? We are interested in whether some of you have experienced this as well and can maybe confirm the connection to the releases.

Thanks for your help!

LPA

[collinq · Accepted solution]

Hi @LPA ,

I do not believe that there is an automatic gateway update process yet.  However, please vote for this idea and perhaps comment on the need?

Microsoft Idea  · Gateway Update Notification and Auto update for Enterprise Gateway (powerbi.com)

[LPA]

Hey @collinq, thanks for answering so quickly and providing clarity that this feature does not exist yet. By chance, have you heard of a workaround for this? If not im just going to invest some time for research 🙂

Thanks and have a nice weekend

LPA

[collinq]

HI @LPA ,

There is no workaround I know about yet, other than the manual method 🙂.  If you find something, please update this thread!