There was a customer comment regarding the fact that the background of their Power View report wasn’t showing up when viewing the report in the Power BI App from the Windows Store. NOTE: This information is true as of April 2014. The reason for this is…
» Read moreWe had a customer that was trying to pull data into Excel by way of an OData feed. This actually related to a Project Server hosted in a SharePoint 2013 On Premise deployment. Within Excel, we have multiple ways to import data. This could be through the…
» Read moreWe’ve had some questions regarding the thumbnail images within the Power BI Sites about what the different images mean. I wanted to go through these to provide some understanding, along with how you can control some of the behavior. Not Enabled Workbooks…
» Read more*********** This post is outdated and has been replaced with the following: Power BI Licensing Revisited! http://blogs.technet.com/b/powerbisupport/archive/2015/08/19/power-bi-licensing-revisited.aspx *********** We have been seeing a lot of cases that…
» Read moreWe had a customer that had created an O365 Tenant with the Power BI License. Then they added a custom domain to their Tenant and added new logons for the custom domain. After that, they removed the original logons with the onmicrosoft.com domain. They…
» Read moreWhen using the Power BI App for Windows, in order to get to your reports, you have to start with a URL to pull the reports (Workbooks) from. This is done by going to the browser area, and then you can enter the URL after swiping up from the bottom or…
» Read moreI ran into an interesting issue where the customer indicated that they were not seeing the correct number of items for a Database that had a large number of tables, however Power Pivot and the Excel Data Tab were showing the items. To illustrate this…
» Read moreWe have seen a few instances of customers not able to view their Power View reports. While Power View is part of Power BI, the ability to view Power View reports within Silverlight has actually been available in SharePoint Online for some time. When you…
» Read moreThere are different ways to get data into Excel for use with Power BI. You can also get data from a bunch of different sources. You can use Excel Data Import, Power Query and Power Pivot to pull data in. Sometimes, you may receive errors when trying to…
» Read moreWelcome to the Power BI Support Blog! This blog will contain posts from the support technicians that work cases related to Power BI. These engineers come from different teams including SQL, Office and SharePoint support with a wide range of experience…
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