Within Power BI, you have the option of either setting up a Scheduled Data Refresh, or doing a Refresh Now. Refresh Now is considered on demand. When performing a refresh, you may encounter one of the following errors. Both of these messages do indicate…
» Read more NOTE: Information good as of 6/30/2015 and is subject to change. Do you know what lurks in the shadows??? I hear from a lot of different people that the new Power BI doesn’t use Office 365. That is a little misleading. For some users, you may use Power…
» Read more Azure SQL Data Warehouse offers elastic scale and massive parallel processing. With the limited public preview announced today, Power BI allows you to directly connect to the data stored in your Azure SQL Data Warehouse offering simple and dynamic exploration…
» Read more NOTE: Information good as of 6/24/2015 and is subject to change. I still get questions on how to do this. Especially with the existing Power BI service not having a “Create Trial” option readily available. Trial tenants can be good for kicking the tires…
» Read more Over the last four months we’ve been adding support for new SaaS services in Power BI, on a weekly basis, providing users with rich, out of the box dashboards and reports in just a few clicks! As we continue this release cadence we wanted to make…
» Read more Are you familiar with the Power BI preview but want to drill down on the technical details and capabilities of the service? Join Sanjay Soni , Technical Product Marketing Manager for Power BI on Tuesday, June 30th at 10AM PT/ 1PM ET to get an overview…
» Read more Today is a great day for the Power BI Designer – We have just enabled refresh (either “Refresh Now” or “Scheduled Refresh”) for Power BI Designer files uploaded to the Power BI service . This enables support for refreshing data…
» Read more This question has been coming up about once a week, so I thought I would get something out there to explain the behavior. The premise is that the user wants to create a Support Request for Power BI via the Office 365 Admin Portal. When they go to the…
» Read more SweetIQ lets you to easily track your local listings by providing location and review data from your local search ecosystem. Power BI allows you to analyze and monitor that data, by offering out of box content built from your SweetIQ data. This content…
» Read more by Ariel Netz, Group Program Manager in the Power BI Designer team Last month we released the last update for our “spring season” and the team is putting together the plans for this fall (i.e the plans for the next 6 months, which is our…
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