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Managing permissions in Power BI Report Server can feel like navigating a maze. Just like in Windows, you can assign permissions to folders or individual items, and you can even break inheritance at any level to redefine access. While this flexibility is great, it can quickly become hard to manage—especially in larger environments. Keep It Simple: Best Practices for Permission Management Here’s my recommendation: If you’re new to this topic, check out Microsoft’s documentation:Roles and permissions in Reporting Services –…

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Keeping an eye on your Power BI Report Server jobs can be a bit of a black box—until now. To make monitoring easier, I’ve built a paginated report that lists all ReportServer jobs, including both automated data refreshes and subscriptions for paginated reports. Big thanks to P. Theriault for the error criteria inspiration and to Alexander Korn for laying the groundwork with the base view! What the Report Does The report pulls job execution data from the ReportServer database and…

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When exposing a Power BI Report Server (PBIRS) to external users over the internet, the typical setup involves placing it behind a reverse proxy. This allows for SSL termination, clean URLs, and better control over access. If you’re unfamiliar with reverse proxies, here’s a good overview: Reverse Proxy – Wikipedia. In our setup, everything worked fine when accessing the ReportServer directly from the internal network. But as soon as users tried to access it via the reverse proxy from the…

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Disclaimer This article was created based on my personal notes with support from Microsoft Copilot. While Copilot assisted in structuring and refining the content, all technical details have been carefully reviewed and developed by me. So, I’ve got a talk coming up about Power BI Report Server, and naturally, I needed a local test environment to play around with. I figured I’d document the setup here—not just for my own future reference, but maybe it’ll help someone else out there…

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