Throughout this book, we've focused on building reports that would ultimately be deployed to the web through the Power BI service or shown in the mobile application. In this chapter, we'll show you how to deploy reports to Power BI Report Server, which is likely being hosted on premises at your company. For many companies, this is a must-have, since cloud deployments are often not allowed with their type of data or industry.

Power BI Report Server is an on-premises version of the Power BI service that gives you a subset of the features of the full service. Just like the service, which is sometimes daily updated with new features, the Power BI Service is updated every few months. There is also an additional Power BI desktop specially made for the server.