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OneWithQuestion
Post Prodigy
9 years agoEnterprise Gateway: Not possible to use as data source?
I use an Enterprise Gateway to call back to SSAS Tabular on prem. I was looking at using Desktop to build some reports and I can't seem to work out how to connect to it as my data source? I c...
- 9 years ago
You add the data source to the gateway and then point Power BI desktop to the data source and the gateway will use your Power BI login credentials to authenticate you against the data source
OneWithQuestion
Post Prodigy
9 years agoSo I don't point Desktop to the gateway I just point it to the exact same SSAS Tabular servername and everything that the enterprise gateway was setup to use?
Then when I publish a report Power BI service will "just know" to use the gateway I already setup?
OneWithQuestion
Post Prodigy
9 years agoOK, that's exactly how it works, cool.
I just didn't expect it would be able to take the local desktop data connection and match it to the Enterprise Gateway, cool!