As you have probably seen Power BI has introduced two new sharing paradigms: Apps for the consumption of the data App workspaces for the editing/authoring/collaborating of the data Had a couple of customers asking about sharing their Apps and App Workspaces using AAD Security Groups. While i typically recommend the security best practice of sharing…
Running the Power BI Refresh API’s Headless
Was talking to one of our Power BI MVPs, Phil Seamark and he mentioned needing to run adhoc refreshes from an SSRS job….but the script needed to be headless. That being the case i modified Sirui’s sample to do just that! Note Live Writer has almost certainly broken the quotes but all you need…
Power BI Streaming Datasets Hands On Lab
As part of the Data Insights Summit I will be teaching the “Dev in a Day” Pre Con with Ted Pattison. In this lab we will be going through how to build Reports using REST End Points and parsing JSON, Embedding Reports into your Website, Creating Dashboards with Streaming Datasets (this Post), Embedding Visuals into…
Embedding a PowerApp application into a Power BI Dashboard
Getting ready for the Data Insights Summit and want to walk people through embedding a PowerApp into a Power BI Dashboard. While there seems to be a lot of steps…many of them are in the application creation and none of them are difficult. Step 1. Create a new application in PowerApps. While the…
Processing your suggestions on Ideas.powerbi.com
In user group meetings it is common to receive feedback about ideas.powerbi.com and wanted to address some of this feedback here. Initially i received complaints about running out of the 20 votes allotment; i tried upping this number and those complaints just restarted so I changed the voting methodology from a set # of votes…
Connecting Power BI to your Visual Studio Team Services Account
I have this question often enough i wanted to walk through the experience myself and the fact that Anthony Borton (an ALM MVP was spending the weekend with me seemed like the right time!) This is also documented in the VSTS and the Power BI docs: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/report/powerbi/connect-vso-pbi-vs https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-content-pack-visual-studio/ The steps to get started: 1. Login…
How to use Power BI alerts and Flow to send alerts to different groups based on the value of the alert
As Sirui and Ruth showed Power BI coupled with Flow solve a lot of business problems around making data more actionable: Turn insight into action using Microsoft Flow and Power BI A simple and fun guide to Microsoft Flow and Power BI During last several Power BI presentations have asked when are we going to…
Free Webinar: Deploying your PowerApps applications by James Oleinik
PowerApps has shown business analysts can now create full featured connected applications with low or even no code. When done, get your app in people’s hands. Publish it to your organization—no app store required. Web and mobile. Laptops, tablets, and phones. Android, iOS, and Windows. James Oleinik, Senior Program Manager on the PowerApps team will…
Adding External contacts to a Distribution List in Office365
As a community person i run a lot of discussion lists (in Exchange called distribution list) and always adding new people to these lists. In the Exchange Admin interface this takes to separate steps and filling out several fields of metadata . The two separate steps are: 1. Adding the contact 2. Adding that contact…
Webinars: On Premises Gateway from PowerApps, Power BI Visualization Design, Common Data Service SDK Preview, Power BI Security Deep Drive and more!
We’ve got a great lineup of webinars planned for May and June! These free sessions will help you gain expertise in Power BI, PowerApps and Microsoft Flow to help improve your organization’s gain insight and take action on your data without a lot of overhead. These webinars are delivered through YouTube, and you can subscribe…