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jaimonsk
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3 years ago
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Publishing the dashboard

Hello Experts,   I have a power bi dashboard with data source in a remote desktop based SQL Server instance. With this data, a dashboard is created and is published in Power BI Service. I need to r...
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    ibarrau
    3 years ago

    Hi. Yes it will. It's recommended to install a Standard/Enterprise Gateway instead of personal at a VM that will be on 24/7 just in case anyone wants to refresh. The VM should have access to the data. You can also use the same machine where the data is hosted, it's not the best practice because you don't want to take resources from that one for refreshing the data, you only want that one to work on the database alone.

    I hope that helps,

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ibarrau
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3 years ago

Hi. Yes it will. It's recommended to install a Standard/Enterprise Gateway instead of personal at a VM that will be on 24/7 just in case anyone wants to refresh. The VM should have access to the data. You can also use the same machine where the data is hosted, it's not the best practice because you don't want to take resources from that one for refreshing the data, you only want that one to work on the database alone.

I hope that helps,