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SSAS Tabular Live Connection Deprecation
Thank you for looking more into this. It is appreciated.
I have not had much experience messing with other sources in Power BI Service other than SSAS through the on-premise gateway as that tends to be my focus area. Can you provide any resources that would show the proper way of setting this up, or is it just a matter of the following?
1. Connect to SSAS cube in Power BI Desktop
2. Save report and upload to Workspace
3. Configure the new data set that is created from uploading the report to be shared with people in your organization
Greg_Deckler the crazy part is I didn't see any official notice on it. In the service itself it now shows up a message as shown below.
When you add a new live SSAS connection, and go to the SQL Server Analysis Services option in the image above, it will not show your new SSAS connection until you have published a report from Power BI Desktop that is connected to that data source. It then adds the data source into your data sets. At that point you can set it as a shared data set or certified data set like you can other data sets.
Also in the post https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Connecting-to-Analysis-Services-from-the-Power-BI-Service/td-p/954032 there is a Microsoft Employee that said that it is deprecated. Although none of the links they provide are of any value in giving guidance on going forward.
On Microsoft's site for connecting to Analysis Services, it hasn't been updated in July 2019. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-gateway-enterprise-manage-ssas
I started noticing this being an issue last month with one of my clients. There was another that pointed out the deprecation notice on the Get Data page. I am not sure when this went into effect though as I have not seen any announcement on this.
Hmm, interesting. It takes you here too: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-datasets-discover-across-workspaces
I'm looking into it.
KevinW_SDP - You know, if you look at the guidance for the other options, they all refer to the Desktop and encourage its use. It strikes me as perhaps Microsoft is looking to slowly deprecate connections being initiated from the Service? In some respects, it makes sense, they have already gotten rid of content packs and options like that, they now have dataflows to be used instead. My bet is that whole Get Data interface is going to go away at some point or be replaced by the new way of doing things.
Thank you for looking more into this. It is appreciated.
I have not had much experience messing with other sources in Power BI Service other than SSAS through the on-premise gateway as that tends to be my focus area. Can you provide any resources that would show the proper way of setting this up, or is it just a matter of the following?
1. Connect to SSAS cube in Power BI Desktop
2. Save report and upload to Workspace
3. Configure the new data set that is created from uploading the report to be shared with people in your organization
- Yep, that's about it!
