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Effect of dataset changes while using deployment pipelines in Power BI

On By MarcIn Deployment Pipelines, Power BI Premium, Power BI Service2 Comments

This week, I’ve presented at two conferences in Europe about Application Lifecycle Management for Power BI. During these sessions at DataMinds Connect and Techorama I’ve talked and demoed native Power BI deployment pipelines, as well as Azure DevOps integration. One of the topics discussed during the session, is the effect of deployments on datasets by …

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Add user to Power BI deployment pipeline using REST APIs

On By MarcIn Administring, Deployment Pipelines, Governance, Power BI REST API, Power BI Service, PowershellLeave a comment

Especially in this time of the year, you will encounter many similar kind of questions as a Power BI Service Administrator. Questions like: “My colleague is on vacation, but I don’t have access to the workspace and the refresh broke, can you help me getting access to this workspace?” Well, this is still the simple …

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Integrate Power BI Deployment Pipelines with Azure DevOps

On By MarcIn Azure, Deployment Pipelines, Developing, Power BI REST API, Power BI Service, Powershell, XMLA Endpoints31 Comments

Back in 2019, Ton Swart and I wrote a blog post on Versioning and CI/CD for Power BI with Azure DevOps. Back then, there were not many options available for versioning and professionalizing your ALM story for Power BI. Till today, this blog post is still my most read blog on Data-Marc.com which makes us …

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Leverage Power BI Deployment Pipelines with Premium per user licensing

On By MarcIn Deployment Pipelines, Developing, Power BI Premium, Power BI Service6 Comments

At Microsoft Ignite, there were two really exciting announcements when it comes to enterprise features for Power BI. Both directly took my attention, as well as for many others. Obviously, the first one is Power BI Premium per user (PPU) licensing. Secondly, Deployment Pipelines reached General Availability! Two super important features for enterprises and the …

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Why you should care about Power BI Deployment Pipelines

On By MarcIn Deployment Pipelines, Power BI Premium, Power BI Service6 Comments

After a short holiday break, it is time for a new blog post! This time about one of the most exciting functionalities in Power BI that has been released in the past release wave, Power BI Deployment Pipelines! In this blog I will elaborate on what Power BI Deployment Pipelines are, why it is an …

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Power BI Datamarts, should I use it or not?

On By MarcIn Administring, Datamarts, Developing, Power BI Premium, Power BI Service12 Comments

The first post after my vacation. I was in doubt for a while whether I should write this one or not… given the preview state. Since one of the customers I work for asked me for advise today about Power BI Datamarts, I thought lets do it! They convinced me that it would be a …

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How to add DTAP stage identifiers of to your Power BI report with Smart Narratives

On By MarcIn Developing, Power BI Desktop, Power BI ServiceLeave a comment

If you are a Power BI report developer, you might have experienced the case I’m describing in this post. You did your utmost best to setup a decent DT(A)P process, where you clearly separate development, test, acceptance and production stages from each other. But as you don’t want to be the only one that has …

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Sharing individual Power BI dataflows, but how?

On By MarcIn Data Modeling, Dataflows, Developing, Power BI Desktop, Power BI Premium, Power BI Service11 Comments

Recently, I have had a challenge at a customer, where a central teams maintains many dataflows in Power BI, to store their only and single version of the truth. However, this central team maintained many different dataflows in a single workspace, but did not want to share the entire workspace with others. What now? How …

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