NOTE: Information in this post is valid as of 12/18/2014 and is subject to change in the future. Data Sources within Power BI are used to define an on-premise data source within the Admin Center. Data Sources rely on a defined Gateway . You can have multiple…
» Read moreNOTE: Information in this post is valid as of 12/17/2014 and is subject to change in the future. The Data Management Gateway is needed to connect your on premise servers with Power BI in the cloud. If you want to refresh your data in the cloud with data…
» Read moreNOTE: Information in this post is valid as of 12/10/2014! Information is subject to change in the future. This is to provide a general overview of the O365 Admin Portal for folks that are using Power BI and may not be familiar with the O365 aspects of…
» Read moreWithin Power Query, you may want to pull data from a SharePoint List that is hosted on SharePoint Online. When loading from the site, you will see the lists populated in the Navigator pane. This is what it looks like for my current site that is set to…
» Read moreInternet Explorer has released an update in November’s patches that will block old versions of Silverlight. November 2014 updates for Internet Explorer http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/11/11/november-2014-updates-for-internet-explorer.aspx You…
» Read moreThere are two issues I’ve seen crop up with Power BI Admin Center. I talked about one of them a while ago regarding the “ You are not authorized ” error. I’ll talk about the other here. This is more just some confusion about how it works and how it is…
» Read moreI worked on a Power Query Sign in issue recently that took a different spin from what I would have expected. Through the course of troubleshooting that issue, I actually learned a bit about how the sign in process works with Power Query, so I thought…
» Read moreI got pulled into an interest case this week that brought back some fond memories. The customer was trying to use Power Query to connect to SQL Server, but was getting errors. It was indicated that pulling in data via Power Pivot or the Excel Data Tab…
» Read moreI’ve seen this following scenario come across a few times. When trying to run a Scheduled Data Refresh, you may see an error similar to the following: “Refreshing the data failed” Within the Power BI Admin Center, if you go to System Health, you will…
» Read moreI have gotten some questions regarding the Power BI Sites and usage of them. There are two different aspects to Power BI, and I wanted to go through them to help folks understand their usage. Power BI Sites The Power BI Site is attached to a given SharePoint…
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