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krypto6969
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9 years ago

Gateway Data Source - where is data actually stored?

we are using the enterprise power bi gateway.    I know that when we schedule or manully refresh data it goes up thru the gateway and validates the user. My understanding is that at no point does a...
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parry2k's avatar
parry2k
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9 years ago

Live connection means it always polls the data source and data never get moved or imported in powerbi, in short, yes, it will not leave the building.

 

Again, i never understood, what data source you are connected with and how you are connected? If you are not publishing  your reports, you don't need gateway, not sure why you have gateway in place? Are you planning to publish your report to power bi cloud (app.powerbi.com)

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krypto6969
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9 years ago

we were hoping to pulish to powerbi only becasue we didn't want to give our end users the power bi desktop app. It would be too confusing for our users.

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    parry2k
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    9 years ago

    now it make sense why you need gateway.

     

    - Your data is on-prem 

    - you developed report using on-prem database using Live Connection

    - publish your reports

    - share with your team

     

    in above scenario, data will not leave your prem, gateway will work between cloud and on-prem to refresh the data.

     

     

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    krypto6969
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    9 years ago

    yep - problem is sharing the report/dashboards with our users. I don't see any other way than giving them the power bi desktop - which is way too much for them to handle.

     

    I'm looking at changing to use live connection - but I don't see a way to change it without recreating the report/dash.

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    Anonymous
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    9 years ago

    Hi krypto6969,

    Firstly, after you publish reports to Power BI Service, you can share reports to other users using the methods that described in this article: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-how-should-i-share-my-dashboard/ .

    Secondly, we are not able to change import mode to Live connection mode in Power BI Desktop. You would need to connect to your data source using Live connection mode and recreate reports in Power BI Desktop.

    Thanks,
    Lydia Zhang