Tech Tip Thursday: setting up a Power BI test tenant
In this week’s Tech Tip Thursday, Guy in a Cube show us the three steps needed to set up a managed trial Office 365/Azure Active Directory tenant as a test environment.
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Tech Tip Thursday: User Principal Name (UPN) mapping in Power BI
In this week’s Tech Tip Thursday, Guy in a Cube looks at what a UPN is in Active Directory, and how you can use the new Map user name feature to create UPN mappings for Analysis Services Live connections that go through the enterprise gateway for Power BI.
» Read more4 recommended practices for new DAX users
On May 31, Paul Turley, Mentor for SolidQ and a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for the Microsoft Data Platform, presented a Power BI Community Webinar on “Best DAX Practices From the Field”. If you’re just starting to learn DAX, check out Paul’s four recommended practices for new users!
» Read moreTech Tip Thursday: 3 ways Reporting Services and Power BI work together
In this week’s Tech Tip Thursday, Guy in a Cube celebrates the arrival of SQL Server 2016 by demonstrating three ways that Reporting Services and Power BI are even more powerful when used together. Learn how Reporting Services integrates with the Power BI Mobile app, how Reporting Services handles Power BI Desktop files, and how to pin visuals from Reporting Services to a Power BI dashboard.
» Read moreTech Tip Thursday: authentication with Analysis Services live connections
In this week’s Tech Tip Thursday, our own Guy in a Cube breaks out his whiteboard to talk about how authentication works with Analysis Services via the Power BI Gateway – Enterprise. He outlines setting up your data source in the enterprise gateway, and how to ensure that your user and your domain are correctly configured in Analysis Services and Active Direcory with the credentials needed to access your data in Power BI.
» Read more2 Dashboard Makeover tips to improve your visuals
On May 12, 2016, the Power BI team held the first live Dashboard Makeover, and it turned out to be one of our most popular webinars of the year! If you missed it live, the Dashboard Makeover webinar is available in its entirety on-demand, and we’ve got a few highlights from the presentation.
» Read moreTech Tip Thursday: how to test Power BI in a custom directory
In this week’s Tech Tip Thursday, our own Guy in a Cube talks to developers about how they can test their Power BI deployment in a custom directory before rolling changes out to production. He goes over the four steps needed, from creating the custom directory to adding the user to creating custom settings for your application.
» Read moreWebinar: Introduction to Power BI for the Excel user
We often say that Excel and Power BI are “better together”, but what does that really mean? Learn how adding Power BI’s world-class tools to your Excel analysis routine can save time, make your data easier to manage, and improve the quality of insights in our next webinar, Introduction to Power BI for the Excel user, on May 17, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. PT.
» Read moreTech Tip Thursday: Row-Level Security for DirectQuery and cloud models
In this week’s Tech Tip Thursday, our own Guy in a Cube talks about what “Row-Level Security” means for analysts, and how it can be applied to both DirectQuery and cloud models in Power BI. He demonstrates how to create roles for datasets, add new filters, and assign users these roles using the new Security settings in the Power BI service.
» Read moreHow to Design Visually Stunning Reports
Can a Power BI report be a work of art? It is if it was created by Power BI Community member Miguel Myers. Miguel, is a Data Scientist as well as a Graphic Designer, and in a webinar last week he shared some of his tips for creating reports and dashboards that are as beautiful as they are informative. Watch the webinar in its entirety on-demand, or read on for a few highlights!
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