How to Publish a Power BI Report and Embed It on a Website

You have built a Power BI report. The charts look sharp, the DAX measures are doing their job, and the data model is clean. Now what? The report is sitting on your local machine in a .pbix file that nobody else can see or interact with. This article walks you through the final stretch: publishing that report to the Power BI Service and embedding it on a website. We cover two approaches. The first is Publish to web, which makes your report publicly accessible to anyone with the link. The second is the Website or portal method, which requires viewers to sign in and respects your data permissions. Both produce an interactive iframe you drop into your HTML. We will also cover workspace creation, publishing from Desktop, responsive design, URL filtering, and troubleshooting. What you need before you start Power BI has a few moving parts, so let us get the prerequisites out of the way: Power BI Desktop installed with a finished .pbix report ready to go. A Power BI account with at least a Pro