You administer a Power BI workspace named Sales Analysis that is in shared capacity. The workspace already contains a semantic model called Sales and several reports connected to it. A colleague sends you an updated .pbix file that contains only an improved data model with the same semantic model name. You need to replace the existing semantic model while keeping the current reports working. What should you do?
In the workspace, use 'Get data > Files > Local File' to import the updated .pbix under a new name and then rename it to 'Sales'.
Delete the Sales semantic model from the workspace, then publish the updated .pbix from Power BI Desktop.
Open the updated .pbix in Power BI Desktop and publish it to the Sales Analysis workspace, selecting 'Replace' when prompted.
Deploy the updated model through the workspace XMLA endpoint as a new semantic model and manually rebind each existing report.
Publishing a .pbix from Power BI Desktop to the same workspace and with the same semantic model name prompts you to either create new items or replace the existing ones. Choosing 'Replace' overwrites the semantic model (and any reports with identical names) but preserves the semantic model's ID. This ensures that existing reports that rely on that semantic model continue to work without needing to be rebound. Deleting the semantic model first would break report connections. Importing the file through the service's 'Get data' option would create a second, separate semantic model. Using the XMLA endpoint is not possible in shared capacity and would be an overly complex solution requiring manual report rebinding.
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