I’ve seen a few scenarios where Office 365 modern groups were depended on for security access, but when trying to use them within Power BI you will find they are not available. Power BI really…
» Read moreAs part of the Microsoft Build event, we are announcing a developer preview of the Data Connector SDK. You can begin to create your own custom data connectors. What are data connectors? Simply put, they are how you connect to data within Power BI. These are extensions on the connectivity/Mashup engine that powers the “Get Data” experience in Power BI and Excel.
» Read moreYou may have seen some forum posts showing how to filter a report with a URL query string parameter. We also have this in the main documentation as well. It isn’t very widely known. So, I thought I’d do a blog post to highlight how to do it, and also give you a trick you can use to filter on multiple fields.
» Read moreWith the release of a new auditing event for Power BI, you can use PowerShell to automate Power BI Pro license assignments. Auditing within Power BI Auditing with Power BI has been available for a…
» Read moreThere have been a few support calls asking why the Drill Down feature is missing from report visualizations. This feature was moved to the explore menu from within a report, in both the reading and editing view.
» Read moreThe trick to getting, the DAX function, Username() to return the user’s User Principal Name (UPN) in Power BI, is that you have to configure Row-Level Security (RLS) on the dataset within the Power…
» Read moreI’ve been noticing a lot of discussion on the community site, in my emails, and in conversation from people having trouble connecting to Analysis Services through the Power BI Gateway – Enterprise. I thought it might help if I break down what actually happens, and what you need to configure to create a successful connection.
» Read moreThis post will look at two different approaches for expanding a record from a list using Power BI and a bit of M syntax. In our specific case, a customer wanted to pull data from a record that was listed in the table output of a SharePoint list.
» Read moreYou may be in a situation where you have disabled AllowAdHocSubscriptions for Azure Active Directory within your organization. This will prevent the ability for users to signup for Power BI. If your organization has this enabled, and no one has signed…
» Read moreNOTE: This information is good as of 9/15/2015 and is subject to change! I get approached quite often regarding Azure Active Directory and how to get that working with Power BI. Here is an example of a question I received. I am investigating Power BI…
» Read more