Change your Power BI report to point to an external SSAS model

A common questions I get is to change the connection string to from my report to SSAS after I move my Power BI desktop file into SSAS. It turns out this actually pretty simple as there is an API that allows you to copy and then bind the report to ANY dataset. Let’s walk through this.

I start with a very simple Power BI desktop file that contains a single table that I imported from SQL:

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