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Mastering Microsoft Power BI

By : Brett Powell
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Book Image

Mastering Microsoft Power BI

5 (1)
By: Brett Powell

Overview of this book

This book is intended for business intelligence professionals responsible for the design and development of Power BI content as well as managers, architects and administrators who oversee Power BI projects and deployments. The chapters flow from the planning of a Power BI project through the development and distribution of content to the administration of Power BI for an organization. BI developers will learn how to create sustainable and impactful Power BI datasets, reports, and dashboards. This includes connecting to data sources, shaping and enhancing source data, and developing an analytical data model. Additionally, top report and dashboard design practices are described using features such as Bookmarks and the Power KPI visual. BI managers will learn how Power BI’s tools work together such as with the On-premises data gateway and how content can be staged and securely distributed via Apps. Additionally, both the Power BI Report Server and Power BI Premium are reviewed. By the end of this book, you will be confident in creating effective charts, tables, reports or dashboards for any kind of data using the tools and techniques in Microsoft Power BI.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Managing gateway clusters

Once a gateway has been installed, the Power BI account used to register the gateway during installation can access the manage gateways portal in the Power BI service to assign administrators for the gateway. For example, if Anna Sanders' account was used to register the gateway during installation, as shown in the following image, Anna would initially be the only administrator of the gateway:

Account registering the gateway

Once registered, Anna can use the manage gateways portal to add a security group of users as administrators for the gateway. Anna can then optionally remove her individual account from the list of gateway administrators since she's either already included in the admin security group or it's not her role to administer this gateway.

The Manage gateways portal is available via the gear icon in the top-right corner of...