To help our Armed Forces Veterans looking to improve their resume or the work-displaced find their next career, PowerPivotPro and Microsoft are teaming up to provide a near-free day of training on Data Analytics with Power BI. To register please see: https://avisingh.eventbrite.com
» Read morePASS Summit 2016 happened a couple of weeks ago in Seattle, Washington, and the Power BI team made a lot of exciting announcements! This week, Guy in a Cube has a round-up of the big news, and gives some additional context to product updates for Power BI together with Reporting Services and Analysis Services.
» Read moreThere’s been a lot of Power BI news lately around R Visuals, but if you’ve never used them before you may not be sure how to get started. This week, Guy in a Cube shows you how to take advantage of the new R Script showcase to explore possibilities and start interacting with your data through R.
» Read moreDo you have someone in your organization that you want to have review the Power BI audit log, but you don’t want to make them a global administrator? Today’s tech tip is for you! This week, Guy in a Cube shows how to grant audit log access within your organization without having to grant additional privileges.
» Read moreBack in May we added the ability to show custom tool tips in reports to Power BI Desktop, but by default tooltips display the count of a column. What happens if you want to display the text instead? Microsoft Senior Program Manager Charles Sterling has you covered in a short step-by-step guide.
» Read moreAdam Saxton, a.k.a Guy in a Cube, has been providing support for Microsoft products for over 10 years, and this week he shares some of his tips for troubleshooting! This video focuses on fixing connectivity issues with Power BI Gateway, but also gives general advice for solving data source connection errors from any application.
» Read moreLast month, we released a set of features in preview designed to make it easier than ever to display real-time streaming data in your Power BI dashboards. Today, I want to show you just how easy this can be!
» Read moreThis week, Guy in a Cube looks at the new Power BI auditing feature. He shows how to activate auditing, and how to use it to understand who is doing what with your data within your organization.
» Read moreAll post-secondary institutions receiving federal funds are required to meet federal retention and graduation reporting requirements as mandated by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA) and outlined in the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC)’s “Information Required to Be Disclosed Under the Higher Education Act of 1965: Suggestions for Dissemination”. Meeting these requirements can be an arduous and tedious task for many institutions — that is, prior to Power BI.
» Read moreThis week, Guy in a Cube addresses some of the confusion around Azure Active Directory and how it differs from local Active Directory. He reviews three Power BI scenarios where Azure Active Directory can be used, particularly relating to gateways, and explains why it’s important.
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