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Report Server Desktop Application

As shown in the Installation section earlier, a PowerBIDesktopRS_x64.msi file is also available for download from the MS Download center. This is the application used to create Power BI reports to be published to this version (October 2017) of the Power BI Report Server.

As shown in the following screenshot, this application can be distinguished from the standard Power BI Desktop via the title bar (here, October 2017) and the Save As menu:

Power BI Desktop optimized for Power BI Report Server

As suggested by the Save as menu in the preceding screenshot, a report created via the Power BI Report Server optimized ...

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