How it works...

• As new versions of the gateway are available, a notification is made available in the Status tab of the On-Premises Data Gateway UI as per Figure 1. The Power BI Gateway team recommends that updates should be installed as they become available.
• The On-Premises Data Gateway, rather than the personal gateway, is required for the DirectQuery datasets created in this book and the use of other Azure services in the Microsoft Business Application Platform.
• The Power BI service uses read-only connections to on-premises sources but the other services (for example, PowerApps) can use the gateway to write, update, and delete these sources.