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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

By : Devin Knight, Knight, Mitchell Pearson , Manuel Quintana
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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

3.8 (10)
By: Devin Knight, Knight, Mitchell Pearson , Manuel Quintana

Overview of this book

Microsoft Power BI is a cloud-based service that helps you easily visualize and share insights using your organization's data.This book will get you started with business intelligence using the Power BI toolset, covering essential concepts such as installation,designing effective data models, as well as building basic dashboards and visualizations to make your data come to life You will learn how to get your data the way you want – connecting to data sources sources and how to clean your data with the Power BI Query Editor. You will next learn how to properly design your data model to make your data easier to work with.. You will next learn how to properly design your data model to navigate table relationships and build DAX formulas to make your data easier to work with. Visualizing your data is another key element of this book, and you will learn how to follow proper data visualization styles and enhanced digital storytelling techniques. By the end of this book, you will understand how to administer your organization's Power BI environment so deployment can be made seamless, data refreshes can run properly, and security can be fully implemented
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Securing reports

You can secure a report in the Manage screen of a report or folder. To access this area, select a report folder or report, select the ellipsis button, and click Manage. Then, go to the Security tab. By default, reports and folders inherit security from their parent folder, but this can be undone quickly by clicking Customize Security.

Keep in mind that there's quite a bit of overlap in the roles that can be assigned, mainly due to the context of what you're securing (My Reports or the public folder or reports). The security roles that you can select are listed as follows:

  • Browser: Can view the reports and folders, and subscribe to the reports
  • Content Manager: Can manage folders, reports, and resources
  • My Reports: Can publish reports and manage folders, reports, and resources in a user's My Reports folder
  • Publisher: Can publish reports on your...

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