2 Getting Started with Power Query

The following recipes will be covered in this chapter:

•Installing a Power BI gateway

•Authentication to data sources

•Main challenges that Power Query solves

Technical requirements

In this chapter, you will be using the following:

•Power BI Desktop: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/ details.aspx?id=58494

•Power BI Pro License: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/power- bi-pro/

•Power BI gateway: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/gateway/

The minimum requirements for installation are as follows:

•.NET Framework 4.6 (Gateway release August 2019 and earlier)

•.NET Framework 4.7.2 (Gateway release September 2019 and later)

•A 64-bit version of Windows 8 or a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2012 R2 with current TLS 1.2 and cipher suites

•4 GB of disk space for performance monitoring logs

You can find the data resources referred to in this chapter at https://github.com/ PacktPublishing/Power-Query-Cookbook/tree/main/Chapter01.