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In this section, we show you how to connect Power BI Desktop with Power BI Service or Power BI Pro. It is very important to publish your reports.

TIP: I suggest you refer to the article Sign up for the Power BI service to create a Power BI account.

How to connect Power BI Desktop with the Power BI service

If you haven't started Power BI Desktop yet, double-click Power BI Desktop to open it. Once it is open, it asks you to register or login as shown below. You can use this form to create a new account.

Click on the Already have a Power BI account? Check in Hyperlink

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Clicking the hyperlink opens a Login window. Here, you need to provide the username.

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Connect Power BI Desktop Focus 2

Somehow, if you forgot to log in when the desktop is loaded, you can follow this approach.

Click on the Check in hyperlink in the upper right corner.

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Provide the email ID provided by your company. Remember, it only accepts identifiers from organizations, not your personal email accounts like Gmail.

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Please enter the password

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Now you can see that I logged in as Suresh.

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