Transitioning to Microsoft Power Platform: An Excel User Guide to Building Integrated Cloud Applications in Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Automate

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D. DingTransitioning to Microsoft Power Platformhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9239-6_3

3. Power BI Service

David Ding¹  

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Sydney, NSW, Australia

 

Power BI Service is a cloud-based Power BI Server in the Microsoft Azure cloud. PBI Service contains everything you see on app.powerbi.com, including the workspaces and the published reports and datasets.

In this chapter, you gain important insights into reporting sharing through Power BI Server and learn ways to automate report refreshes.

Note

Power BI Service is a fast-evolving beast. When writing this book in May 2022, Power BI had just announced the public preview of datamarts. This means all three core components ...