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8 years ago

Run Power BI Desktop on Azure Virtual Machine?

Hello Power BI Community, I love Power BI.  I love it so much that I made a massive model that bogs down my desktop when I attempt to refresh my data model.  Basically, I connect to data saved on my ...
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5 years ago

You can set-up a Windows Virtual Machine on Azure, Google Cloud or AWS. Then you install and run Power BI on that Virtual Machine. Finally, install Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac on each device to give your team access to that VM.

To know more I would recommend to visit Azure Managed Services to get more knowledge and better understanding about Azure services. In addition to this know more about azure database migration service

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riguberto
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5 years ago

Thanks for your info. I'm facing same issue and same thoughts about creating a super vm with an on premises gateway to handle my powerbi reports.

Can you/anyone share more experiences and best practices to do it? Azure, AWS, ... Costs, specs of the machine to create,...

 

thanks!