Power BI Premium Migration Tool Eases the Required Move to Fabric

• Commercial Power BI Premium P customers must migrate to Fabric at their next licensing renewal.
• An automated migration tool can remove most of the manual effort, but validation, testing, and some manual changes are still required.

Microsoft has retired Power BI Premium P licenses for commercial customers and is requiring those customers to migrate to Fabric licensing and deployments. A migration tool, available as a Fabric notebook, allows customers to programmatically migrate existing Power BI Premium P capacities with minimal manual effort, which is especially helpful for organizations with hundreds or thousands of Power BI workspaces. The only part of the migration that remains a manual effort is configuring settings at the Fabric capacity level.

Setup and Automation

The migration tool is a Python text-based Jupyter notebook (located in GitHub) that admins can modify to their specific needs. Admins need Fabric tenant-level admin rights and at least a Contributor role where the new Fabric resources will be created. They also need permissions to execute the notebook as an Azure Key Vault Secrets User so that it can use the encryption keys.