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Periodic Data Refresh on PowerBI
I have Microsoft Dynamics online and a powerBI PRO subscription. I have upgraded to PRO in order to try to have an automatic update of my data set (as also reported in https://powerbi.microsoft.co...
I am guessing that by Dynamics Online you are talking about D365. In that case you do not need a Gateway.
Check out this article https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn708055.aspx and scroll down to the section that says Use Power BI Desktop to connect directly to your Microsoft Dynamics 365 (online) instance.
Also at the very top of this article it specificall states "The Power BI for Office 365 cloud service works with Microsoft Dynamics 365 to provide a self-service analytics solution. Power BI automatically refreshes the Microsoft Dynamics 365 (online) data displayed."
with automatically being the most important word in that paragraph.
Errata ... the link worked by removing the trailing " and" ...