Donate

How To Setup Power BI On-Premises Data Gateway In Power BI Service

-
Hello Gents,

Here's how to setup a Power BI On-Premises Data Gateway to a On-Premises data source like Microsoft SQL Server or any other databases in Power BI Service so that you don't have to move your datasources elsewhere. The idea of a gateway is to keep your reports in the Power BI Service up to date of it's content through Schedule refresh or live connectivity. This is important so that stakeholders and top management can access the reports anytime through the app or website with updated information. So to setup a Power BI Data Gateway in your machine, just follow the steps provided below to accomplish the task at hand.

I. Download Data Gateway For The Reports

1. Download datagateway from Microsoft Powerbi website: Connect to on-premises data sources with a Power BI gateway
2. Sign-in with your personal or domain account.
3. Choose on-premises data gateway (recommended)
4. Choose register a new gateway on this computer if fresh install.
5. Fill out on-premises data gateway after registration.
     New on-premises data gateway name and Recovery key. Make sure to keep the Recovery key.      You might need this in the future.
6. Click Configure.

II. Setup On-Premise Data Gateway For The Reports

1. Open your Power BI workspace and click on the schedule refresh icon of a report Dataset.
How To Setup Power BI On-Premises Data Gateway In Power BI Service
2. Click on the Manage Gateway button to add a new datasource.
How To Setup Power BI On-Premises Data Gateway In Power BI Service
3. Add a new Data Source for the DemoWorkspace report and then supply values to the Data Source Settings
     a. Data Source Name
     b. Data Source Type
     c. Server, Database
     d. Authentication Method
     e. Username (Domain Account)
     f. Password (Domain Password)
     *** Note: For DirectQuery connection mode, we don’t need to worry on data refresh scheduling.
How To Setup Power BI On-Premises Data Gateway In Power BI Service
4. If the credentials are correct, a connection successful message will appear on top of the configuration setting.
How To Setup Power BI On-Premises Data Gateway In Power BI Service
5. Go back to the gateway connection settings and update the Maps to: dropdown button of the existing gateway. Then choose apply.
How To Setup Power BI On-Premises Data Gateway In Power BI Service
6. Configure Schedule Refresh for the report data source. Set the Refresh frequency, Time zone, Time (you can add up to 8 times), and Emails if refresh fails. Then click apply.
How To Setup Power BI On-Premises Data Gateway In Power BI Service

That's all there is to setup. Enjoy!

Comments

Post a Comment

Donate

Popular Posts From This Blog

WPF CRUD Application Using DataGrid, MVVM Pattern, Entity Framework, And C#.NET

-
Image
Good day to all! Here's an example of a WPF CRUD (Create,Update and Delete) project using the DataGrid control, ADO.NET Entity Framework 6.x, C#.NET and Model–View–Viewmodel(MVVM) architectural pattern. This post was based from this tutorial WPF CRUD With DataGrid, Entity Framework And C#.NET except that we are now using the MVVM framework. The steps below are pretty straightforward and easy to follow. I. Project Setup 1. Add a table called Students in you database. The complete script is found in this post WPF CRUD With DataGrid, Entity Framework And C#.NET 2. Create a WPF Project and add four folders called DataAccess, Model, View and ViewModel. 3. Your project structure may look similar with the screenshot provided below. II. Coding The Model and Repository Class 1. Inside the Model folder, add an ADO.NET Entity Data Model that connects to the Students table in your database. On my part, I named it StudentModel . 2. For the connectionstring name in App.config file, I
Read more

How To Insert Or Add Emojis In Microsoft Teams Status Message

-
Image
Good day Gents! I was trying to update my Microsoft Teams status and was wondering if I can add or insert emoji. For editing or adding new teams status, only text fields are available and there's no emoji icon similar to writing a teams message. After googling for a few minutes, I found this link Emoji's in status which is a feature request in Microsoft Teams User's Voice Forum. So far this upgrade request only has thirty votes which is relatively small and may be considered a low priority for the product team to implement. Given the limitations at hand, I tried several approach including copying an emoji in a chat message which didn't work and later found a solution using Microsoft Outlook 365. First is to create a new email message in Microsoft Outlook and press (Window Key + .). The emoji dropdown control will appear. Next is to select the emoji that you wanted to add to Teams. Copy the emoji from the newly created email message template and paste that to Micr
Read more

Bootstrap Modal In ASP.NET MVC With CRUD Operations

-
Image
Good afternoon fellow developers! I have been working with Bootstrap Modals before and it's time to demonstrate its significance using a simple ASP.NET MVC CRUD (Create Update Delete) application project using Entity Framework Database First approach. First is to create a basic BookDetails table on your SQL Server instance. USE [DemoDB] GO /****** Object: Table [dbo].[BookDetails] Script Date: 11/2/2020 12:26:53 PM ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BookDetails]( [BookSerialNo] [int] IDENTITY (1,1) NOT NULL , [BookISBN] [ nchar ](15) NULL , [BookTitle] [varchar](120) NULL , [BookAuthor] [varchar](60) NULL , [BookPublisher] [varchar](50) NULL , [BookCategory] [varchar](20) NULL , PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( [BookSerialNo] ASC ) WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF , STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF , IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF , ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON , ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON ) ON [ PRIMARY ] ) ON [ PRIMARY ] GO Next is to create an ASP.
Read more