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Alay
Helper I
11 years ago

Power BI Personal Data Gateway architecture

Hello fellow Power BI Users,   My colleagues and I are comparing the Personal Data Gateway architecture to the Data Sources we defined in the Power BI for O365. We only have On-Prem data sources. ...
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Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
11 years ago

Power BI for O365 had a Data Management Gateway that was effectively the same as Power BI 2.0's Personal Gateway. You had to install somewhere in order to refresh certain on-premises data sources.

 

You can install the Personal Gateway in some central location as long as it has connectivity to the on-premises data sources.

Alay's avatar
Alay
Helper I
11 years ago

So is there an article on how we can install the data gateway on a VM that can be shared by all users within the enterprise?

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    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    11 years ago

    Alay

    You can find details about how to set up the Personal Gateway here.

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      Alay
      Helper I
      11 years ago

      Anonymous Thank you for the suggestion. I checked out this article and it is exactly what I already set up. It does not help with the central / alternative install suggested by Greg_Deckler

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        Greg_Deckler
        Community Champion
        11 years ago

        In all of my cases, I have generally just had a single gateway and Power BI would find an available gateway and assign the data source to use it. Now, may be mixing some technologies here because Power BI for O365 definitely did this and I had an admin screen, etc. where I could see all of my gateways and manage them. Haven't seen that for Power BI 2.0 so I'll have to play with it and see if it still works like Power BI for O365. I have my hesitations though since it was rebranded "Personal...".