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Introduction Microsoft Fabric encourages a broader audience of people to collaborate on the same platform than what we are used to. Backend Developers, Frontend Developers and End Users are all logging in to the same website, and the lines dividing where each role starts and stops are more blurred than ever. A topic which seems…
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Introduction So your old Power BI Premium Capacity has run/is running out, and your organization is acquiring a new Fabric Capacity to replace it. Perhaps the organization even decided to take the chance to move the capacity region to something a little closer to home? If you find yourself in this situation, how do you…
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The Scenario Consider the following scenario: Where should you grant users permissions and access in Fabric? Do you give them Workspace Access? Item Access? Something third entirely? The following are questions I hear people ask from time to time, which relate to one or more of the above bullets: I hear many people confused about…
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Almost exactly one year ago, I took a leap outside the comfortable boundaries of LinkedIn, and launched my blog http://www.downhill-data.com. Back then, I hoped to achieve a few things: I figured a small review, and a look at the numbers behind my blog, might encourage (or discourage) others to do the same. The Numbers Since…
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Introduction 2024 saw the birth of Fabric Symposium. A community driven Microsoft Fabric focused data conference, based on an idea that had been living rent-free in my head for much of 2023, until I finally put in the effort to make it a reality in 2024. I thought the turn of the year, with our…
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This week, to round off the year, we try something different. I wanted to throw a shout out to all the community heroes out there, who also help make the most of Microsoft Fabric, through the use of Microsoft Power Platform (and vice versa). Also, I wanted to highlight some of their contributions, and hopefully…
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Introduction I have written at length about how to create Power Apps embedded in Power BI / Fabric, applying write-back capabilities, and making the most of the integration: However, recently I was faced with a challenge I had not seen before: A simple comment App embedded in Power BI was supposed to show all the…
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Introduction In Microsoft Fabric, whenever we create a new Lakehouse or Warehouse, a Default Semantic Model is created. However, we can also choose to create a Custom Semantic Model on top of our Lakehouses and Warehouses. A dual-concept which is confusing to many. This blog will try to explain: The TL;DR of this blog: It’s…
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Do you want to share Power BI Reports with End Users through an app, but hide the Page Navigation of the report? This is especially useful if you have built-in navigation using Buttons, Sidebars or other menus in your report. Luckily, there is a quick solution. Well, two solutions actually, depending on whether you are…
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I took the beta exam for the DP-700 Fabric Data Engineer Associate certification last week, and while I don’t know the results yet, I figured I would share my thoughts on studying for the exam, and a few notes on the topics included on the questions I received. If you want to schedule the exam,…
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