Tableau Desktop Inside Tableau Server

Question

Is there a Tableau Desktop executable inside the Tableau server installation.

I have a system where Tableau server in Cloud and would want to use Tableau Desktop in the same server? Is that feasible?

Answer 1

Tableau Server and Desktop are two different products and Server does not ship with a copy of Desktop.

They can both be installed on the same windows machine, but I would never do that except for trouble-shooting reasons (ideally you should install Tableau Server on a dedicated machine so that it does not have to fight anything else for resources).

Answer 2

Tableau Server lets you make limited edits to existing workbooks, but you can not create new workbooks directly.

However, if you want to install Tableau Desktop separately, on the same cloud server that hosts your Tableau Server, it may (or may not) be doable depending on the specifications of the cloud server.

Answer 3

The major difference between Tableau desktop and Tableau Server?

Answer 4

At my previous organization, we always had a desktop version installed on the VM running our tableau server. This was useful for making connections to data sources that required firewall rules since the VM's IP was static. Then extracts could scheduled for refreshes.

So yes, it is feasable, but like others, it is a separate product.