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Power BI on cloud hosted dev machine

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Hello,

I have a cloud hosted D365fo developer machine, my current version is: Installed product version : 10.0.15 (10.0.644.20002) and Installed platform version : Update39 (7.0.5816.41512)

I want to see the standard reports hosted by several workspaces like Cash Overview, which use power bi reports, but It's not working for me.

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Is this integration - between Power Bi and  D365Fo developer machine - possible in the first place ?

I've found an old post from 2017, Accessing Analytical Workspaces and Reports on 1Box environment

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/dynamicsaxbi/accessing-analytical-workspaces-on-1box-environment

Is this still an issue 4 years later ?

I have a power BI account and I also configured the integration between D365FO developer machine and Power by following this link

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/analytics/configure-power-bi-integration

I've used Power Bi App registration tool (https://app.powerbi.com/apps), to register D365Fo dev machine into Azure App Registration and this is the result:

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API permissions:

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In ax, System Administration > Power BI configuration I have this configuration and the authentication worked.

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Then I've tried to publish the reports but I get a generic error, without much details :

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The error:

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Also when I try to run the Cash Overview workspaces I get this:

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So, what I'm missing here? How this integration between Power BI (which is an azure service) and d365fo actually works? As far I've understood, standard ax workspaces use power BI embedded in order to display the reports? How data is transfer between ax and power BI ? 

1- Embedded PowerBI Report (you can find it under workspace dashboard > Analytics) and you don't need to configure it on UAT and PROD  (what about dev machine ?)

2- Integrated PowerBI Reports (This type need the configuration in System Administration > Power BI configuration and then you need to deploy the reports to powerBI.com)

I guess that Integrated PowerBI Reports are external reports with multiple datasouces that you can pin them in AX. You can deploy the standard AX powerbi reports to powerbi.com and use them as integrated reports too..

For configuration I've also check with the steps shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAPRZmD1898

There is a video about how to setup power Bi on DEV machine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDDA58xJOUM) but it's a workaround about how add the standard power BI reports back into ax not executing embed the power BI reports

So, any ideas about how to make it work ?

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  • Suggested answer
    FlorinF Profile Picture
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    RE: Power BI on cloud hosted dev machine

    Finally, I've found what was the problem regarding why I could not browse the power bi report catalog from D365:

    it was old data persisted in configuration table PowerBIConfig. The data in PowerBIAPIAddress column  was missing the  ".../myorg" part.

    I've deleted the record ( It will be created when you save the configuration) and now I can browse the report catalog and pin the reports to a workspace.

  • FlorinF Profile Picture
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    RE: Power BI on cloud hosted dev machine

    Yes, Thank you. It looks that is not supported for dev VM. All you can do is to try the hack from MS:

    docs.microsoft.com/.../accessing-analytical-workspaces-on-1box-environment

    (or the steps from your document mentioned previously) to create a BYOD setup in order to host the Entity Store in a separate Azure database.

    Anyway, even if it's not supported I should still be able to connect to Power BI workspaces in order to browse the report catalog or to deploy the reports.

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    Ajit Profile Picture
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    RE: Power BI on cloud hosted dev machine

    For custom report, I design report in Power BI Desktop with AXDW connection in my box and verify PBIX looks ok and working as expected and then embed it in F&O and deploy to tier 2 instance. And if you want to test your report with Sandbox data, you can connect AXDW db of sandbox in your power BI desktop.

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  • FlorinF Profile Picture
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    RE: Power BI on cloud hosted dev machine

    How do you develop embeded power bi reports if they are not supported on dev machine ?  I can't find any reference from Microsoft saying that embeded reports are not supported on dev machine.

  • FlorinF Profile Picture
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    RE: Power BI on cloud hosted dev machine

    True. But the video shows that from AX you can see and browse the reports in the PowerBi workspace. My problem is that I can not access the powerbi workspace at all. It gives me an generic error when I try to browse existing reports.

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  • Ajit Profile Picture
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    RE: Power BI on cloud hosted dev machine

    Video shows how to pin the power BI report not embed the power BI report. When you pin the power BI report that can connect to any DB using gateway. You can create a Power BI report with multiple sources using gateway and that also you can pin in F&O workspace.

  • FlorinF Profile Picture
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    RE: Power BI on cloud hosted dev machine

    You can connect power bi on a local machine by configuring a local gateway. Look at this one:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDDA58xJOUM.

    I've managed to connect from powerBI.com to AX ( powerbi => AX) to get data and execute reports but not from AX to BI. 

  • Ajit Profile Picture
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    RE: Power BI on cloud hosted dev machine

    I did but long time back using the one I shared. But now I am using tier2 instance for all Power BI Embedded testing.

  • FlorinF Profile Picture
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    RE: Power BI on cloud hosted dev machine

    Which document are you referring to ? Did you manage to make it work on your dev machine ?

  • Ajit Profile Picture
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    RE: Power BI on cloud hosted dev machine

    As far as I know Power BI can't connect database on local VM,  it has to be on Azure. Did you try to open that workspace with Power BI in tier2?

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