Publishing your Power BI Desktop dataset and report to the Power BI cloud service

Next, you must import your dataset and report from Power BI Desktop into the Power BI cloud service. Once published to the cloud service, you will be able to share the analytical report with others who are stakeholders in the project. You will also be able to view the reports on the Power BI mobile app if you want to dive into the data while on the go.

The work that you have done up to this point used Power BI Desktop on your local machine. You have two options for migrating this content to the Power BI cloud service:

• Publish from Power BI Desktop: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/desktop-upload-desktop-files
• Import the .pbix file from the Power BI service

Both options are equally simple. For this tutorial, you will import the .pbix file from the Power BI service.

From your newly created Power BI workspace, select Upload | OneDrive for Business, and select...