Copilot or autopilot? Unpopular opinions on copilot

Lately it's copilot before and after in all Microsoft communications and announcements. Also, during the Fabric Community Conference in Las Vegas where I was last week, it was hard to keep count of the number of times copilot was mentioned. Next to Microsoft communications, everyday conversations with customers and colleagues include copilots everywhere too. Which …

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Controlling Workspace Creation in Power BI: How to Strike the Right Balance?

Working with many companies that implement Power BI, this is a question that comes along every single time; Should we enable workspace creation for all our users, or limit it to a specific security group? In this blog post, we'll explore the topic of workspace creation. Depending on who you talk to, you might get …

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Migrating to Power BI, but how?

Over the last half year, I have been involved in many large migration projects from another BI tool to Power BI. All with a different setup, from Tableau, Microstrategy and from Analysis Services to Power BI. In this blog I will shine a light on the experiences I gained during these migrations and share some …

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Transform a local into a global Power BI solution – Content endorsement

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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Transform a local into a global Power BI solution – Ownership and descriptions

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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Transform a local into a global Power BI solution – Information protection

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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Transform a local into a global Power BI solution – Dataset discoverability

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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Transform a local into a global Power BI solution – Request access to content

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 …

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Transform a local into a global Power BI solution – Content sharing

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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Transform a local into a global Power BI solution – Introduction

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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