This morning, I was looking for a specific tenant setting in the Fabric admin portal. While scrolling through a few of the tenant settings, I came across a specific one, which I like to elaborate on a bit more in detail, given I recently also had some questions around this topic from customers. What happens …
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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Today, I run into an issue by adding a service principal to a workspace. To my experience so far, this should be straight forward and a matter of adding with the right permissions in the workspace settings. However, for some reason I couldn't get it to work. In this blog I will elaborate on what …
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Recently, I had two enterprise customers with whom I was in conversation about Microsoft Fabric and how it could complement their existing data landscape. Both of these customers have a data platform running already, which have lots of best practices and customizations in it, not necessarily portable to Fabric. Also, both came from a standpoint …
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. …
In the previous blog, I wrote about data temperature as part of Fabric when you're using Direct Lake storage mode. In that blog, I explained how you can get insights in the temperature of a column, what that temperature means and what the impact of the temperature is on columns that are queried more often. …
As part of Microsoft Fabric, a new storage mode to connect from Power BI to data in OneLake has been introduced. Direct Lake it makes to possible to use your data from OneLake in Power BI without taking an additional copy of the data. Where Direct Lake promises to deliver the performance of Import-mode with …
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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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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 …
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