This chapter introduced application workspaces and their fundamental role in managing and delivering Power BI content to groups of users in the Power BI service. A staged deployment architecture across development, test, and production workspaces was described, including calls to the Power BI REST API to manage this process. Additionally, several features and processes related to content management and governance were reviewed, including version history via OneDrive for Business, field descriptions, and accessing the DMVs of datasets to document datasets.
The next chapter examines the On-premises data gateway and the configuration of data refresh processes in the Power BI service. This includes the administration of the gateway, such as authorizing users and data sources, as well as monitoring gateway resource utilization.