NOTE: This is preview material and is subject to change. Information listed here is good as of 2/6/2015. This is to show you how to sign up for the new Power BI service. This is in regards to the Free/Preview service. In order to start, we need to go…
» Read moreNOTE: This is preview material and is subject to change. Information listed here is good as of 2/5/2015. If you go to https://www.powerbi.com and sign up, you will get to the Public Preview. If from there you go to https://portal.office.com you may see…
» Read moreThis question has come up a few times regarding why you would be seeing 1,000,000 licenses for Power BI in your O365 Tenant. To show you what this looks like we can go to the O365 Admin portal, go to Billing and then Licenses . From a subscription standpoint…
» Read moreWe have received a few calls regarding the Power BI Public Preview. In some cases the customer wasn’t able to get the site loaded up when going through http://www.powerbi.com/dashboards . They would receive and error similar to the following. Sorry, that…
» Read moreWe had a case that came in where the customer was trying to configure a Data Source within the Power BI Admin Center for an Oracle Server. During the creation of that Data Source, they went to set the credentials, and received the following error. Failed…
» Read moreNOTE: This is preview material and is subject to change. Information listed here is good as of 12/19/2014. The Power BI Designer is a new companion application for Power BI. It is a standalone Windows Desktop application that can be downloaded from the…
» Read moreWe have seen a few cases some in where we get an error like the following Failed to register the gateway key. Before trying to register the gateway key again, confirm that the Data Management Gateway is in a connected state and the Data management Gateway…
» Read moreNOTE: 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…
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