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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

The Power BI REST API for admins

Although the Power BI admin portal and the Power Platform Admin Center portal provide easy graphical tools for common and simple administrative tasks, the Power BI REST APIs provide programmatic access to many administration-focused endpoints, such as for retrieving artifact access for a given user, restoring deleted workspaces, and rotating encrypting keys.

Power BI administrators and BI/IT managers are therefore encouraged to review the documentation on the Power BI REST APIs (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi) and to consider incorporating these APIs into standard admin processes.

One relatively new and very powerful admin API is GetGroupsAsAdmin. This API can be called to retrieve up to 5,000 workspaces and include the users, reports, dashboards, datasets, dataflows, and workbooks associated with each given workspace. The JSON output of this single API call can then be loaded to a monitoring SQL database or potentially...