PowerBI's move from MSI to EXE installers

[Rich]

Hello,

I noticed that Microsoft announced Power BI would discontinue the MSI installer in favour of EXE installers going forward. I was curious how this would effect current deployments of Power BI since PatchMyPC uses the MSI installer.

Thanks

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Retiring the Power BI Desktop .msi installer for an .exe
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Plan For Change
Published On : July 30, 2019
We will be retiring the .msi installer for Power BI Desktop beginning September, 2019. We're moving to a .exe installer which includes all languages in a single download, allowing users to change the language of their UI and data model as needed.

How does this impact me?
When this change is implemented, users will no longer be able to download the .msi installer from: PowerBI.msi. They should use the .exe installer at: PowerBI.exe. The links from www.powerbi.com will direct users to the .exe from July 2019.

The .msi installer will be available until September 1, 2019, at which point only the .exe will be available.

What should I do to prepare for this change?
For users on Windows 10 we still recommend you download Power BI Desktop from the Microsoft Store.

Please click Additional Information to learn more.

[Justin Chalfant (Patch My PC)]

Yeah, we saw this. We will keep this in mind for the next update. We also have a topic here https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-319

[Rich]

Thanks. I did a search to see if anyone has brought this up previously, but didn't think to search the ideas/suggestions page as well.