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Mastering Microsoft Power BI – Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Gregory Deckler, Brett Powell
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Mastering Microsoft Power BI – Second Edition - Second Edition

4.5 (2)
By: Gregory Deckler, Brett Powell

Overview of this book

Mastering Microsoft Power BI, Second Edition, provides an advanced understanding of Power BI to get the most out of your data and maximize business intelligence. This updated edition walks through each essential phase and component of Power BI, and explores the latest, most impactful Power BI features. Using best practices and working code examples, you will connect to data sources, shape and enhance source data, and develop analytical data models. You will also learn how to apply custom visuals, implement new DAX commands and paginated SSRS-style reports, manage application workspaces and metadata, and understand how content can be staged and securely distributed via Power BI apps. Furthermore, you will explore top report and interactive dashboard design practices using features such as bookmarks and the Power KPI visual, alongside the latest capabilities of Power BI mobile applications and self-service BI techniques. Additionally, important management and administration topics are covered, including application lifecycle management via Power BI pipelines, the on-premises data gateway, and Power BI Premium capacity. By the end of this Power BI book, you will be confident in creating sustainable and impactful charts, tables, reports, and dashboards with any kind of data using Microsoft Power BI.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Index

Content sensitivity and protection

A key advantage of Power BI is its native integration with Microsoft 365. This integration is perhaps most evident when it comes to securing and sharing content. Power BI uses AAD for assigning permissions to content as well as authenticating users. However, the integration with the security features of Microsoft 365 runs much deeper to include the integration of information protection and data loss prevention policies.

In the following sections, we explore this deeper integration with the security and compliance features of Microsoft 365 since the subjects of information protection and data loss prevention are often prominent in the minds of enterprise BI and information security teams.

Information protection

The Microsoft Information Protection solution involves the creation and application of sensitivity labels to emails, files, and content containers such as Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Groups, and SharePoint sites.

Sensitivity...