We have all been in a situation where you want to get more insights in the specific settings for a published dataset. But when this dataset is owned and published by someone else, you have to take-over the dataset first to get all the details available. In this blog, I will elaborate on what is …
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A while ago, I wrote a blog about migrating Analysis Services dataset to Power BI Premium. Back then there were not many options to do so, today there are many more like ALM toolkit. Though, the read is still useful to get the concept behind it and understand the similarities between Azure Analysis Services meta …
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Often I got the question from customers: "Can you assign my workspace to a premium capacity?" But frequently they actually do not really need Power BI Premium. It remains to be a difficult topic to decide whether someone needs Power BI Premium or not. Therefore, I decided to setup a decision tree that helps to …
The last blog in the series of transforming a local into a global enterprise grade solution. After everything about sharing content and requesting access to content, and many other topics, it is time to look at content endorsement. A feature in the Power BI service that helps you to easily mark your content as being …
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Time flies when you are having fun and learning, right? Time for the 6th blog in the series of transforming a local solution into a global, enterprise-grade Power BI solution. This episode will be spent on ownership and descriptions, why is ownership important, how to arrange it and how and where to put descriptions and …
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On to the next topic, which is super important for global, enterprise grade solutions if you ask me. Security and information protection! The fifth blog in the series of transforming local into global Power BI solutions. Good to know up front is that information protection is a feature that not specifically related to Power BI, …
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After everything about sharing content and requesting access to content, it is time to talk about discoverability of content in the Power BI Service. The next blog in the series of transforming a local into a global enterprise grade solution. In this blog, we will look closer at the discoverability of datasets and in particular …
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Third blog in the series on Transform a local into a global Power BI solution. After covering the general differences between small scale and enterprise solutions and last week all about content sharing, it is time to elaborate on a new topic. Previously we talked about how content should be shared, but now we will …
Continue reading Transform a local into a global Power BI solution – Request access to content
Recently I started a blog series on different topics that come into play when you want to transform a local (small scale) solution into a global (enterprise) solution. I started this series explaining some typical differences between local and global solutions as you can find in the introduction post of this series. This week, the …
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The Power BI team has invested a lot over the past year in making datasets better discoverable in the Power BI Service. This helps on many aspects to drive a data culture within your organization, aim for a single source of truth, collaboration within the organization and much more! In this blog post I will …
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