Part of Microsoft 365, it stores, shares and manages content in cloud-based sites and document libraries. Reports from Power BI can be embedded in its pages, and Power BI can read files kept there.
Also called SharePoint in Microsoft 365.
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Each book explains SharePoint Online in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Microsoft 365
Formerly Office 365, Microsoft's software-as-a-service productivity suite. A Microsoft Entra tenant provides its identity, and its data is not governed by Azure RBAC.
- Power BI
Microsoft's analytics and reporting service. It reaches data held on-premises through the on-premises data gateway.
- READ FILES
Granted on a storage credential or external location, this Unity Catalog permission lets tools like Auto Loader or
COPY INTOpull files directly from cloud storage.WRITE FILEScan't be used without it.
Related terms
- Application-enforced restrictions
Lets Exchange Online or SharePoint Online learn whether a device is managed and compliant: on such devices users get everything, while elsewhere they get a cut-down experience such as browser-only access. It is a Conditional Access session control.
- CAE
Instead of letting an access token run until it expires, Microsoft Entra continuous access evaluation allows Microsoft Graph, Teams, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and similar services to end a session almost straight away. Triggers include a disabled account, a password reset, revoked tokens, high user risk or a move to a different network location.
- Embed in SharePoint Online
Shows a report, or one visual from it, inside a modern SharePoint Online page by way of the Power BI web part; the link comes from File, Embed report in the service. Access rules and RLS continue to apply, and anyone viewing it needs a Pro or PPU licence, except when that content is hosted on F64 (or larger) or Premium.
- Microsoft traffic profile
Forwards Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive and Microsoft 365 Common traffic through Global Secure Access, which lets you use universal tenant restrictions and compliant network checks.
- OneDrive refresh
Roughly every hour, the Power BI service checks the .pbix, Excel or CSV file that a semantic model and report came from, if it lives on OneDrive or SharePoint Online, and syncs any changes. Scheduled data refresh is different: it queries the underlying sources.