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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

Power BI admin portal

The Power BI admin portal provides controls for administrators to manage the Power BI tenant for their organization. This includes settings governing who in the organization can utilize which features, how Power BI Premium capacity is allocated, and other settings such as embed codes and custom visuals.

The admin portal is accessible to Microsoft 365 global administrators and users mapped to the Power BI administrator role. The Power BI administrator role and the assignment of a user to this role in Microsoft 365 were described in the Power BI project roles section of Chapter 1, Planning Power BI Projects.

To open the admin portal, log in to the Power BI service and select the Admin portal item from the Settings (gear icon) menu in the top right, as shown in Figure 14.9:

Figure 14.9: Admin portal in the Settings menu

Note that depending on screen resolution and zoom settings, the gear, bell, and other icons may not appear and instead be...