Monday, June 24, 2019

How do I backup my Power BI reports?

Well, they live in the cloud at Microsoft don't they? From the Power BI desktop you publish to an app workspace. Datasets are published to the cloud and a report is really tabs/pages off of a dataset. There is no way to version the datasets at Microsoft itself and thus if you want to do something like that, you'd better save some stuff locally. In Googling against this stuff it looks like you may save the whole of your desktop environment to a .pbix file and, also, a coworker told me that you may save the datasets off to some sort of file and then recreate them from whatever those files are. The traditional channel for exposing Power BI reports to others is through a Power BI application, however, you may loop in individual reports within an iFrame in a web application, for example an Angular application, too. There are service accounts in this space that users will be associated to via Active Directory and these govern who can see what.

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