Power BI for the M365 admin

The Power BI decisions that land on the M365 admin's desk — licensing, workspaces, semantic models, row-level security, and deployment pipelines.

For: M365 admins and BI leads standing up or tidying a Power BI tenant.

6 guides in this path

  1. 1
    What is Power BI?Power BI is Microsoft's business analytics platform — Desktop, the Service, semantic models, and the licensing maze from Free to Fabric. What it does, how the pieces fit, and how to start without creating a report swamp.
  2. 2
    Power BI Pro vs Premium Per User vs Fabric capacityChoosing between Power BI licensing tiers — Pro, PPU, and Microsoft Fabric capacity for different scenarios.
  3. 3
    Power BI workspace designHow to structure Power BI workspaces for sharing, lifecycle, and governance at scale.
  4. 4
    Power BI semantic model designHow to design Power BI / Fabric semantic models for performance, usability, and reuse — star schemas, measures, and best practices.
  5. 5
    Power BI row-level and object-level securityHow RLS and OLS restrict what users see in Power BI semantic models — the patterns and the pitfalls.
  6. 6
    Power BI deployment pipelinesHow to manage Power BI content lifecycle with deployment pipelines — dev, test, production.
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