Deploying to Power BI Report Server

If you're a traditional BI developer who has built Reporting Services reports, you might feel right at home with Power BI Report Server, as the configuration and portals were largely borrowed from Reporting Services. The main difference is that you will not use Visual Studio to build reports. You're going to use a special Power BI desktop that is optimized for the server. The main reason for the separate desktop is to ensure that the desktop doesn't promote a feature that the server does not support. One key advantage to using this approach is that Report Server can also host your traditional Reporting Services reports, KPIs, and mobile reports.

Before deploying your report, you may want to create some ...

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