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The latest version of On-premises Data Gateway February 2019 (3000.1.257) has been released on 1st March 2019. The release note is quite short and it doesn’t really provide a lot of information. At least that’s the case as at today (6 March 2019).

There is One new feature however, that I found very interesting is the “Network Ports Test” under the “Diagnostics” tab. This is an important feature I believe that gives you the ability to deal with your network administrators or your security officers much easier. You can now easily run a test directly from the gateway UI and pass the test results to your network admins if any of test steps fails.

As you can see in the screenshot you can click on “Start new test” and then open the completed test results to send them back to your networking team is needed.

That was really quick wasn’t it?

Check this out if you want to learn about processes involved with implementing On-premises Data Gateway across organisations and how to com up with an implementation plan.

WARNING: The above post is a really long one.

On-premises Data Gateway (aka Power BI Enterprise Gateway) is release a while ago (2 Dec. 2015), but, with the latest release on 22 Dec. 2015 Power BI Enterprise Gateway now supports live connections to both SQL Server Analysis Services Multidimensional and Tabular models as well as SAP HANA. In this post I’ll explain lots of important aspects of the Power BI Enterprise Gateway including installation, configuration for different data sources including SSAS Multidimensional, Tabular and SQL Server Database and much more. If you need to have the lowest possible latency then you need DirectQuery/Explore Live feature on top of your on-premises data sources. The good news is that Power BI Enterprise Gateway now supports all following data sources:

SQL Server Database
SQL Server Analysis Services Multidimensional
SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular
SAP HANA
In this article you’ll learn how to install and configure Power BI Enterprise Gate Way, how to manage different live data sources, how to create reports on top of live data sources and more.
Note 1: If you want to use DirectQuery to connect to your on-prem SQL Server Database OR Explore Live your SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular model then you might not need to install and use the Power BI Enterprise Gateway. In those cases you can install Power BI Personal Gateway to connect to an instance of SQL Server OR install Power BI Analysis Services Connector to connect to your on-prem instance of SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular model rather than installing the Power BI Enterprise Gateway. But, bear in mind that selecting the best gateway is really depending on your use cases, your data sources and the environment you’re working on.
Note 2: The Power BI Enterprise Gateway and Power BI Personal Gateway CAN be installed on the same machine.

Downloading and Installing Power BI Enterprise Gateway

You can download the gateway from the dedicated download page for On-premises Data Gateway on Microsoft website or after logging into Power BI Service with your account, click on “Data Gateway” from the download menu:

OR you can go straight to the gateway page then download the Power BI Gateway – Enterprise (Preview):