Power BI – Bulk Changing Permissions (Read, Reshare & Build) on Datasets
I recently had a challenge where a report was shared with a whole lot of people (Which is a good thing!). The challenge was that when you share reports, by default it has the option to “Reshare” as shown below. Whilst this sometimes is what is required, I always suggest to people to remove this option and rather manage it…
Enabling External Power BI Users to easily view App Workspaces or Apps shared with them
Having the capability to connect external people (B2B) into your data within Power BI is a great feature and a huge advantage when comparing to other customers in my opinion. In this blog post I want to demonstrate how to easily allow external users to always find the data that they have access to in other organizations. I have been…
Review of new features & Announcements for #PowerBI – From the Microsoft Business Applications Summit
I was once again very fortunate to make it across to the Microsoft Business Applications Summit in Atlanta. I had 3 sessions which I presented at, and they went well. It was great to meet new people (some of whom I had only read their blog posts or viewed their videos) and reconnected with existing people. As I did last…
Power BI RoundUp – Service & Mobile update for Feb 2019 | On-Premise Gateway Update | Update on New App Workspaces V2 | Power BI Embedded at Power Platform Summit | Multivariate reporting
Welcome to this weeks Power BI RoundUp, it is a little late this week. I have been fortunate enough to make it to Redmond and attend the MVP Summit, it was once again an amazing summit! Here are this week’s updates, which might be a bit shorter than normal due to being at the airport about to leave for home….
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Service & Mobile Update for July & August 2018 – User Research Panel – On-Premise Gateway Update for Sep – Webinar on Power BI Dashboard Comments)
Here is this weekly BI-RoundUp where I will detail what updates there have been in the past week. Power BI – Service & Mobile Update for July & August 2018 In the past two months there has been a lot of updates to the Power BI Service and the Power BI Mobile App. All the details are below with links…
Using the Power BI Service Parameters to change connection strings (To possibly change between Dev, Test & Prod)
As I am sure a lot of people noticed if you now go into the settings of your dataset there is an additional option which says Parameters. What I wanted to test out was to see if I could change the connection strings using the Parameters in the Power BI Service. The advantages of this working in my opinion is…
BI-NSIGHT – Excel 2016 Waterfall Charts – Datazen Updates – Power BI Content Packs (SQL Sentry, Circuit ID) – Power BI Distribution Groups
These past two weeks there has been a massive amount of news and reviews on the updated Power BI Desktop as well as the Power BI Service. I have been reading quite a lot and found some people doing some really amazing things. I honestly feel that Power BI is going from strength to strength. Excel 2016 – Waterfall Charts…