Technical Requirements

It is assumed that the reader has access to a Power BI Pro or Premium Per User (PPU) license, the rights to download and install the development tools on their machine, and the necessary access and rights to deploy and manage content in the Power BI service and utilize the Power BI mobile applications. In addition, the following are required to complete the recipes in this chapter:

• A Windows PC running Windows 10 or Windows 11
• At least 10 GB of disk space available; the Power BI Desktop download is up to 600 MB in size and the installed application is over 1.5 GB

Additionally, the Microsoft on-premises data gateway requires the following:

• A Microsoft account
• .NET Framework 4.7.2 (a gateway release from December 2020 or earlier)
• .NET Framework 4.8 (a gateway release February 2021 or later)
• A 64-bit version of Windows 10 or later, or a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2012 R2 or later
• 4 GB of disk space for performance monitoring logs (in the default configuration)