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Microsoft Power BI Complete Reference

By : Devin Knight, Brian Knight, Mitchell Pearson, Manuel Quintana, Brett Powell
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Microsoft Power BI Complete Reference

By: Devin Knight, Brian Knight, Mitchell Pearson, Manuel Quintana, Brett Powell

Overview of this book

Microsoft Power BI Complete Reference Guide gets you started with business intelligence by showing you how to install the Power BI toolset, design effective data models, and build basic dashboards and visualizations that make your data come to life. In this Learning Path, you will learn to create powerful interactive reports by visualizing your data and learn visualization styles, tips and tricks to bring your data to life. You will be able to administer your organization's Power BI environment to create and share dashboards. You will also be able to streamline deployment by implementing security and regular data refreshes. Next, you will delve deeper into the nuances of Power BI and handling projects. You will get acquainted with planning a Power BI project, development, and distribution of content, and deployment. You will learn to connect and extract data from various sources to create robust datasets, reports, and dashboards. Additionally, you will learn how to format reports and apply custom visuals, animation and analytics to further refine your data. By the end of this Learning Path, you will learn to implement the various Power BI tools such as on-premises gateway together along with staging and securely distributing content via apps. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide by Devin Knight et al. • Mastering Microsoft Power BI by Brett Powell
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Live connections to Analysis Services models


For on-premises SSAS models that Power BI users will access via Live connections, an SSAS data source must be added in the Manage gateways portal. Critically, the credentials entered for this data source in the Manage gateways portal must match an account that has server administrator permissions for the SSAS instance. The following image, from SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), exposes the server administrator accounts for the ATLAS instance of SSAS Tabular: 

Analysis Services Server administrators

Both SSAS and Azure Analysis Services instances can be accessed via SSMS. Additionally, the Analysis Server Properties dialog from the preceding image can be accessed by right-clicking the instance name. Identification of the Power BI user by SSAS will only work if a server admin account is specified and thus used when opening connections.

User authentication to SSAS is based on the EffectiveUserName property of SSAS. Specifically, the user principal...