This question has been coming up about once a week, so I thought I would get something out there to explain the behavior. The premise is that the user wants to create a Support Request for Power BI via the Office 365 Admin Portal. When they go to the…
» Read moreNOTE: Information good as of 6/16/2015 and is subject to change. We had a scenario come up when using the Analysis Services Connector. In the scenario, the customer was restricted by a One Way Trust. Their domain (Domain A) trusted users in Domain B,…
» Read moreNOTE: This information is good as of 6/2/2015 and is subject to change. This will go over, what I refer to as, the Office 365 Bubble, or OBubble as I’m affectionately calling it. This is really to lay some foundation for some other items I want to post…
» Read moreNOTE: Information good as of 5/26/2015 and is subject to change! There seems to be some confusion about where the Data Management Gateway (DMG), or rather any Gateway, for Power BI can be located. The biggest thing I hear is that the gateway has to be…
» Read moreNOTE: This information is good as of 5/25/2015 and is subject to change! We will continue to see issues relating to getting into the Power BI Admin Center. I’ve covered some of the issues we see that relate to this. Not Authorized to access Power BI Admin…
» Read moreNOTE: Information good as off 5/25/2015 and is subject to change! This issue came across when a customer was trying to sign up for the Dynamics CRM Sales Productivity Suite, and saw that Power BI for Office 365 was not added as part of it. The actual…
» Read more*********** This post is outdated and has been replaced with the following: The Conceptual Data Model and Limits http://blogs.technet.com/b/powerbisupport/archive/2015/08/11/the-conceptual-data-model-and-limits.aspx *********** When using an Excel workbook…
» Read moreYouTube Video (Better Quality) I was approached with a case where the customer was trying to create a Data Source within the Power BI Admin Center and received the following error when trying to test the connection and having Encrypt Connection selected…
» Read moreNOTE: Information good as of 3/29/2015 and is subject to change! I wanted to share a quick trick that you can do to add titles to your Power View reports within the Power BI service. Let’s look at the problem. When we create a Power View report within…
» Read morePower BI Designer is a tool that can help you create interactive reports. You can pull data from various data sources like SQL Server, OData Feeds, etc. Let’s look at how we can use Power BI Designer to pull data from SQL Server and add those data elements…
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