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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

PBRS client applications

As mentioned in the previous section, a version of the Power BI Desktop application optimized for PBRS is made available with each release of PBRS.

As shown in the Installing and upgrading PBRS section earlier, a PowerBIDesktopRS_x64.msi file is also available for download when downloading PBRS. This is the application used to create the Power BI reports to be published to that specific version of PBRS.

When running the report server optimized version of Power BI Desktop, the version is displayed in the title bar in parentheses, such as (January 2022). In addition, the Save as menu displays an option for PBRS, as shown in Figure 12.20:

Figure 12.20: Power BI Desktop optimized for PBRS

As suggested by the Save as menu in the preceding screenshot, a report created via the PBRS optimized application can be saved directly to the report server. In other words, a .PBIX file doesn’t necessarily have to be saved to a user’s machine...