It’s been a while since my last post. Summer break, conferences, and other priorities kept me busy. But it’s time to pick it up again. This topic is one I hesitated to share for quite some time, as it can easily be interpreted in different ways. Still, I believe it’s worth discussing, and I’ll let …
Last week I was running a post-conference (postcon) workshop at Fabric February in Oslo. To have a successful postcon, workspaces were needed for all attendees of the workshop. In these workspaces they had to run their exercises and explore Fabric. But setting up a bunch of workspaces by hand, assigning it to a capacity and …
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Last week, I was attending and speaking at the first ever Fabric February, a great in-person conference dedicated to Microsoft Fabric taking place in Oslo - Norway. (I recommend attending future editions of this event!) During the conference, someone walked up to me and asked if I knew a way to programmatically refresh Power BI …
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Recently, I was on a call with a good friend and former colleague, just to exchange some thoughts, knowledge and ideas. We shared some things we're working on and what we think of the evolvement of technology in the Era of AI - with the launch of Microsoft Fabric versus the technology we were used …
Continue reading Anchored vs. Active – Categorizing Technology
Lately, I found myself struggling using the Power BI REST API to add a service principal to the (Fabric) workspace. After I engaged with some other folks, I managed to succeed. In this blog I will elaborate on the mistake I made and how I got it to work. For some this might be a …
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Imagine, you have everything setup and well secured in your data lakehouse, or data warehouse if you will. Then a user starts consuming the data in Power BI and imports all data according to the security applied to that users' permissions. Once the data is imported, all data can easily be shared to others who …
Continue reading Simplifying Security Replication in Power BI: A Step-by-Step Guide
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 …
Continue reading Add user to Power BI deployment pipeline using REST APIs
This time a slightly different post. Not Power BI or Microsoft related. Though I would like to ask you to read on cause I need your help! I'm proud to announce that I'm nominated as Dutch IT Talent of the year 2022 by Computable. Cause with only the nomination I'm not there yet. Now, I …
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Last week, I had the pleasure to meet up with the amazing community again in London at SQL Bits. As very first thing, I want to express my appreciation and gratitude to those who were in the organizing team for SQL Bits for making this all happen! Such a large event in difficult times like …
Basically for every data model, but in particular for large and enterprise-grade data models, it might be wishful to perform backups. Power BI Premium offers a way to perform backup and restore operations for Power BI datasets. This feature, coming from Azure Analysis Services, helps you to take a backup of your dataset logic as …
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