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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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You might have seen the recent YouTube video by Guy in a Cube, where Adam explains how to work as an external user and publish content from Power BI Desktop to a B2B workspace. In this blog, I will further elaborate on business-to-business capabilities of Power BI, some related tenant settings that allows or blocks …
After Power BI Workspace setup - part 1, which was mainly about creating your workspace, giving it the right name etcetera, this blog will elaborate on workspace permissions. If you did not read part 1 yet, I encourage you to start at that blog to get the basic setup in place. You might think, permissions …
Time for a more governance related blog this time. It will be a series of two blogs, where in this first part, I will elaborate on the overall setup of your Power BI workspace and naming. The second part will continue about workspace permissions, sharing and ownership. I feel this is a wide topic and …
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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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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