Over the past months, I've been engaging with many clients with regards to Microsoft Fabric. Many clients had a somewhat hesitant approach given Fabric was still in preview and they did not want to bring their (entire) data estate to Fabric. Since last week, Microsoft launched Fabric as General Available during the annual conference Microsoft …
Continue reading Debunking Myths and Embracing Innovation with Microsoft Fabric
Have you ever found yourself stuck with a modified Power BI Semantic Models, thanks to those well-intentioned but troublesome changes you made through the XMLA endpoint? Does that sound familiar to you? What seemed like a convenient solution quickly turned into a frustrating challenge when you encountered the error message in the Power BI Service. …
It has been quiet for a few weeks due to summer break. But now, it's time to ramp up again and continue posting about Fabric. This time, I'll start with a question that many Fabric (and Power BI) users ask themselves: "What does my tenant configuration look like?". Often, users find themselves eager to explore …
Continue reading Unveiling Tenant Configuration in Fabric: Empowering User Exploration
Together with the introduction of Microsoft Fabric a long-awaited feature for Power BI also became available. Git integration now allows us to connect your workspace to a git repository to sync the meta data from your Power BI dataset and report between the workspace and the repository. At the same time, Power BI deployment pipelines …
Continue reading The clash between Power BI git integration and deployment pipelines
Frequently, I am approached by curious individuals who inquire about my job and how I contribute to the success of our customers, especially since I am not directly involved in building solutions for each and every one of them. These questions have made me realize that it might be interesting to share insights into my …
Continue reading A Day in the Life of a Fabric Administrator: Balancing Governance and Collaboration
Microsoft Fabric is out there for a few weeks now. With the release of Fabric, a new concept in line with data-mesh architectures became available in Fabric, or Power BI if you will. With the introduction of Domains, we have a new level of controls added next to existing roles. In this blog I will …
Continue reading Governance in Microsoft Fabric: Understanding the Roles and Domains
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 …
Continue reading Controlling Workspace Creation in Power BI: How to Strike the Right Balance?
Let's imagine you're running a (fictive) company, and you're short on data & analytics experts. Therefore, you decide to in hire expertise, and they will help you build your Power BI reports. As an employee of this organization, you rather have them starting sooner than later. But... if you need to request accounts for them …
Continue reading Successfully collaborate with Externals in Power BI
Back in August 2022, Microsoft released a feature to have multiple audiences for Power BI Apps, or if you will deploying multiple versions of the same app where you can actively show and hide content for different audiences. A very welcome feature that has a big impact on the number of workspaces people require to …
Continue reading Multiple audiences for Power BI apps, will it change your workspace setup?
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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