The management and administrative processes described in previous chapters have primarily reflected the role of corporate business intelligence teams and BI professionals. In this chapter, the features and processes relevant to IT administrators are reviewed, to help organizations deploy and manage Power BI according to their policies and preferences. This includes data governance in the context of both self-service BI and corporate BI, the Power BI admin portal, monitoring user activity and adoption, and the administration of Power BI Premium capacity.

As in the previous chapter, this chapter exclusively covers the Power BI service. Administrative topics relevant to the on-premises deployments that were included in Chapter 10, Deploying the Power BI Report Server. Additionally, although data governance concepts and implementation guidance are included, readers are encouraged to review Microsoft documentation for further details on implementing data governance as part of Power BI deployments.

In this chapter, we will review the following topics:

• Data governance for Power BI
• Azure Active Directory conditional access policies
• Azure Active Directory B2B collaboration
• Power BI admin portal
• Power BI service Tenant settings
• Power BI activities in Audit Logs
• Using metrics reports
• Administering Power BI Premium capacities