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Introduction If you have ready some of my previous articles, you know that I find Power Apps embedded in Power BI reports absolutely fascinating. You can easily write data back to your sources (Link), create LookUp extensions and generally enhance the functionality of your reports (Link). One gripe I’ve always had however, is that all
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Do you ever ask yourself: How can I display Power BI reports to people outside my organization? The questions is complex, and has multiple different solutions. One is to use Power BI Embedded, which allow you to embed Power BI reports on websites. But… How does a low-coder go about setting up a website for embedding?
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Introduction In terms of developing Power BI reports and models, Power BI Desktop has long reigned supreme. However, being limited to developing in Power BI Desktop comes with at least 2 issues: Hence I find it very appealing to aspire towards a paradigm in which in-browser development can be seen as an equally viable option.
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Introduction The past two weeks, this blog has outlined how: This week, we will look at completing the Application Lifecycle Management of those solutions, by building on top of the GIT Integrated Workspaces with the built-in Deployment Pipelines. The benefits of leveraging Deployment Pipelines are many, including: Setting up TEST, PROD and the Deployment Pipeline
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Introduction Developing on Microsoft Power BI / Microsoft Fabric is adopting more and more engineering practices. Modern data teams find themselves looking towards solutions for collaborative development, version control and lifecycle management solutions. The GIT integration feature introduced to workspaces in Power BI / Fabric patches up many of the holes, and in combination with
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Introduction One thing that has always annoyed me about the Power BI service, is the lack of a certain feature. A feature which exists in countless other Microsoft cloud offerings: Built in Version History. However, with Microsoft Fabric came also the GIT integration for workspaces, which allows for connecting a workspace to an Azure DevOps
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Introduction Are you experiencing throttling or perhaps even outages in your Microsoft Fabric Capacity? Are you confused why your Capacity is maxed out, or perhaps wish to explore your usage deeper? Then you have come to the right place. This brief article will show you how to install the Fabric Capacity Metrics App, and give
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Introduction I have written about accessing Dataverse Data from Microsoft Fabric, outlining how it is possible using: But what if we wanted to go the other way around? What if we wanted to use data stored in OneLake as part of a Power Platform Solution? There are several potential solutions to this, and this article
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Introduction Microsoft Fabric is top of mind everywhere, and its promises for improving the analytic capabilities of Power BI users are huge. However, integrations and compatibility between Fabric and the wider Power Platform (e.g. Dataverse, Power Apps) is not seeing the focus it warrants. For starters: How can I leverage data currently stored in Dataverse,
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Introduction A Fabric feature which has flown a little under the radar (and which is still in Preview as of May 2024), is the ability to sync data from imported Semantic Models back to OneLake: Learn about Microsoft OneLake Delta table integration in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric – Power BI | Microsoft Learn The
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Introduction In March, I wrote about How to setup RLS in Microsoft Fabric / Power BI without breaking DirectLake functionality – Downhill Data (downhill-data.com) Back then, RLS was not possible to edit through the Web Authoring experience of Semantic Models in Fabric. Instead, you had to go the roundabout way of using Tabular Edit to
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If you want to showcase your Microsoft Fabric prowess, DP-600 is the certification you are looking for. With a syllabus covering data analytics, data engineering, platform management and enterprise development best practices, it is indeed a test worthy of Analytics Engineers. Personally, I felt this was the hardest Microsoft Exam I’ve taken to date, due
Hi, I’m Jon.
I blog about Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Power Apps & Power Automate, and speak at conferences about data, business intelligence and data driven decision making.
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