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Migrating from SQL Server Reporting Services

There is not an in-place upgrade from SSRS to the Power BI Report Server. However, migrating an existing instance of SSRS running in Native mode to Power BI Report Server can be accomplished via the following steps:

Back up the database, application, and configuration files of the existing SSRS instance:
- The encryption key of the SSRS instance should also be backed up
- The configuration files can be found within the SQL Server installation directory (<install directory>\Reporting Services\Report Server), as shown in the following screenshot:

Reporting Services config

- The default installation ...

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