This week, Guy in a Cube looks at how the Power BI data region is selected, and how you can find out in what region your data is currently located. He also talks about why data region is an important thing to review before anyone signs up for Office 365, Power BI, or other Microsoft services.
» Read moreWant to share your Power BI reports and dashboards as part of a website or application? This week, Guy in a Cube looks at three ways to embed Power BI, including publish to web, using the REST APIs, and the new Power BI Embedded service within Microsoft Azure.
» Read moreThis week, Guy in a Cube reunites with Spud Trooper to discuss the new On-premises Data Gateway and how it affects users of the existing Power BI Gateway. Together they explain what has changed, and how the new gateway works with PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, and Logic Apps, as well as Power BI.
» Read moreYou’ve set up Power BI with a managed tenant, and now it’s time to add users! In this week’s Tech Tip Thursday, Guy in a Cube looks at different options for Power BI license assignment, from the Office 365 Admin portal to PowerShell. He also gives a quick overview of the different types of licenses available.
» Read moreMicrosoft's Guy in a Cube has been providing tips and tricks for Power BI and Business Intelligence on his YouTube channel since 2014. Every Thursday we highlight a different helpful video from his collection. Have you ever wondered what "workspace" exactly means in the navigation bar of the Power BI service? In this week's Tech … Continue reading “Tech Tip Thursday: all about Power BI workspaces”
» Read moreIn 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.
» Read moreIn 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 moreOn 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 moreIn 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 moreIn 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.
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