Microsoft Power BI Desktop connection
To access your data in Power BI Report Server, create a connection asset for it.
Microsoft Power BI is a business analytics solution that includes products and services for business intelligence (BI) reporting and data visualization. The qualifier local describes the extraction mode that is used to extract business intelligence report definitions. Local extraction connects to Power BI Report Server.
Create a connection to Microsoft Power BI Desktop
To create the connection asset, you need the following connection details:
- Local server address: Hostname or IP address of the Power BI server.
- Local server port: The default value is 80.
- Local server folder: The folder on the server where reports are stored, for example,
Reports. - Username and Password to the Power BI server.
For Credentials, you can use secrets if a vault is configured for the platform and the service supports vaults. For information, see Using secrets from vaults in connections.
Restrictions
- Connection testing when you create or update the connection doesn't work for this connection. A connection is validated when you set up a metadata import that uses the connection.
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Related connection: Microsoft Power BI (Azure) connection