There's a lot of topics about Excel workbooks, on-premise connections, SSAS tabular/MD, but nothing really concise answering these questions:
- If I create an Excel 2016 workbook and use Data>From Other Sources>Analysis Services>Choose an on premise server>to pivot table, save this workbook locally and then upload to Power BI, assuming I've set up Data Gateway - Enterprise for this data source, can Power BI handle the refresh of the connection?
- If I login to Power BI using my work email from home, not on premise, can I open this workbook and see the most up to date data? Do I need to hit refresh? Can I hit refresh - does Power BI pass the request through Data Gateway?
- Assuming refresh works, how is security handled? Does Azure AD pass my credentials through Data Gateway to on-premise and therefore row level security, etc still works? If I manipulate filters after opening the workbook hosted in Power BI connected to an on-prem cube, do I only see data I have security for?
- Can I login from home (off-premise) and still see updated data?
- Assuming refresh doesn't work, can I still host a workbook connected to an on-prem cube in Power BI and let users open the templates and manually 'refresh all'/set the workbook to 'refresh all' upon opening so they can use them while on-premise?
- If I save the workbook to my local computer, assumption is connection is lost and no further refresh possible - need to open from Power BI?
I maintain our local SSAS cubes and we currently use SSRS to host templates of those cubes for different perspectives, etc. We're trying to move towards ONE reporting portal and if I can set each paginated rdl report as an 'additional action' on the multi dimensional cubes and host these cubes in Power BI we can 'mostly' move over to Power BI service as the primary report portal.
Thanks folks,