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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

Installing and upgrading PBRS

Once capacity (cores) to deploy PBRS have been obtained, teams can prepare to install and configure the environment by downloading the report server software and the version of Power BI Desktop optimized for PBRS.

Both the report server installation software and the report server version of Power BI Desktop can be downloaded from Microsoft at the following link: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/report-server/. Clicking the Advanced download options link on that page transports the user to the most current release of PBRS available in the Microsoft Download Center.

Clicking the large Download button presents the option to download three different files, as shown in Figure 12.16:

Figure 12.16: Downloading PBRSes

Referring to Figure 12.16, the PowerBIReportServer.exe file is the file for installing PBRS, while the PBIDesktopRS.msi and PBIDesktopRS_x64.msi files are for downloading the Power BI Desktop application optimized for...