Solutions Monkey https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/solutions/feed.xml Nothing but solutions Wed, 17 Apr 2019 03:25:12 GMT en-US hourly 1 Power BI Org content packs https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/solutions/power-bi-org-content-packs Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:10:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/solutions/2015/07/24/power-bi-org-content-packs/ Power BI is Generally Available today. One great feature in Power BI is Org content packs.

 

Content Pack is way for any company to distribute their own dashboards or reports to their users for consumption through an easy to discover content gallery.You no longer need to search your inbox for the email that you got with the link or invitation or simply not know content available in rest of the company. Content gallery ( Get Data -> My Organization) makes it super simple to discover all the BI content that you have access to in one place.

As a content creator, by packing your content as a content pack and putting it in the content gallery makes the content discoverable not just for the present but even for your future audiences.

You can create content packs with just reports or dashboards & reports. The datasets used by these reports and dashboards are automatically included.

Any Power BI Pro user can create an Org Content Pack and publish to Entire tenant or restrict to security group / office 365 group. Any Power BI Pro user can consume Org Content Pack.

Consumers can customize dashboards/reports without affecting other users/source.Consumers can’t modify the dataset, refresh dataset etc.

User level security flows through to On-premise AS. For imported datasets, content pack creator imports the data and schedules refresh using his/her credentials

Datasets could be in Group space or in My workspace.

 

Creating content pack is super simple. Learn more at https://support.powerbi.com/knowledgebase/articles/651040-introduction-to-organizational-content-packs

]]> Power BI features available for preview starting today https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/solutions/power-bi-features-available-for-preview-starting-today Thu, 18 Dec 2014 13:39:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/solutions/2014/12/18/power-bi-features-available-for-preview-starting-today/ The last few months the team shifted to top gear to deliver some exciting new features for Power BI in Office 365 and I am super happy to see them in the preview today. The below 3 images should speak volumes about the effort went it.

Dashboard

Report

Designer

and finally everyone got a team ship it award

 

]]> Forecasting in Power View (HTML5) in Office 365 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/solutions/forecasting-in-power-view-html5-in-office-365 Fri, 16 May 2014 13:54:25 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/solutions/2014/05/16/forecasting-in-power-view-html5-in-office-365/ Forecasting is a new capability added to Power View in HTML5. Just for fun, I pulled in the historical MSFT stock price starting from the year ( for better projection ) and tried out the forecasting and hindcasting. The interaction is indeed very fun and the capability is super powerful. 
 
Here is the workbook embedded live. Try it out and Happy forecasting!!!. For more details, check out http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/powerBI/bi-blog.aspx#fbid=2yZXmU3hqQN

]]> Name a country without the letter .... https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/solutions/name-a-country-without-the-letter Wed, 16 Apr 2014 18:00:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/solutions/2014/04/16/name-a-country-without-the-letter/ Now and then I stumble upon questions posted in linkedin.com as updates which would test your knowledge. If it's too hard or too embarrassing, the first reaction is to brush it off and move on quickly. Some times you feel good about answering them right. But when I saw the question "Name a country without the letter A", I ended up using Power View to answer it and sharing it here for everyone's benefit to find the answers for similar questions :)

]]> Global Cities in Power BI https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/solutions/global-cities-in-power-bi Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:38:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/solutions/2014/03/10/global-cities-in-power-bi/ Over the weekend, I stumbled on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city and ended up spending good amount of time reading about global cities. It had lots of data and I tried to put few of them together in Power BI & visualize. Power BI makes such data discovery and analysis seamless and fun.  Try Power BI and Experience it yourself

Here is the outcome. Open it in full window.

]]> Olympics, Oscars or Outdoor activities - it doesn't matter , Power BI is there for you :) https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/solutions/olympics-oscars-or-outdoor-activities-it-doesnt-matter-power-bi-is-there-for-you Thu, 06 Mar 2014 10:36:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/solutions/2014/03/06/olympics-oscars-or-outdoor-activities-it-doesnt-matter-power-bi-is-there-for-you/ Olympics, Oscars or Outdoor activities - it doesn't matter , Power BI is there for you :)

Discover, combine, model , analyze, visualize, explore, share, collaborate, get answers and insights, access anywhere, refresh, monitor, manage and all in the cloud , that is Power BI.

Here are some examples of Power BI in action

The Oscars with Power BI

Summer Olympics

Outdoor activities

Let Power BI tell you a Valentine’s Day Story

 

There are also lot more examples of 'Power BI in action' at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/powerBI/solutions/demo/default.aspx

]]> Connecting to On-Prem data from Power BI Preview https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/solutions/connecting-to-on-prem-data-from-power-bi-preview Tue, 08 Oct 2013 18:16:14 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/solutions/2013/10/08/connecting-to-on-prem-data-from-power-bi-preview/ I tried out connecting to On-Prem data source from Power BI Preview tenant in Office 365 and got it working. So sharing some tips on the areas where I needed to double check or sought help.
BTW  , the steps that I followed to get it working are at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi-admin-center-help-HA104078330.aspx

(1) To get to Power BI admin center, use the Admin ->Power BI link at the top of your Power BI site.

Alternatively you can there with the below url https://<yoursiteurl>.itadmin.clouddatahub.net/
Note: this is different from the O365 admin site or  SharePoint admin center.

(2) The data source name is case sensitive and should match exactly what’s in the excel workbook and the one registered in Power BI Admin center.


(3) For the manual refresh to work, you need to get the data into PowerPivot model in the workbook. If you get the data to regular excel sheet and then create a PV sheet based on the excel content, then refresh doesn’t work. So make sure , when you create the workbook  the data is pulled into PowerPivot directly using external connection and power view is created based on this PowerPivot mode.

]]> Try the Preview version of Power View HTML5 in Office 365 Sites. https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/solutions/try-the-preview-version-of-power-view-html5-in-office-365-sites Thu, 15 Aug 2013 18:42:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/solutions/2013/08/15/try-the-preview-version-of-power-view-html5-in-office-365-sites/ When you create an Excel 2013 workbook with Power View sheets, you can save it to SharePoint Online in Office 365. Workbook readers can then view and interact with the Power View sheets in that workbook in brwoser. Currently, by default Power View renders the Silverlight version. We have recently added a switch option which allows you to try the preview. You can view reports on any HTML5-friendly device. This is a preview version, so some of the visualizations may not work yet or features are not complete. You can always switch back to the Silverlight version for those cases. But we feel this is good starting point for you try and explore and get a sense of what is ahead. We appreciate your participation and feedback. Please try out and provide your feedback here

 

Power View Silverlight with "Try the Preview" option

 

 

Power View HTML5 with "Take me back" option

 

]]> Microsoft's unique approach to Business Intelligence and Big Data Videos https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/solutions/microsofts-unique-approach-to-business-intelligence-and-big-data-videos Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:58:09 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/solutions/2013/06/05/microsofts-unique-approach-to-business-intelligence-and-big-data-videos/ Microsoft's unique approach to Business Intelligence and Big Data

A Growing World of Data - Part 1 of 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBkzmwaSRUc

The World of Big Data - Part 2 of 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiIVUV8evtk         

Big Data Get Ever Bigger  - Part 3 of  4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFY5eF9XjBQ

Microsoft and Big Data...Worlds Collide - Part 4 of 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbkuic-Dxww

]]> Microsoft BI Authentication and Identity Delegation https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/solutions/microsoft-bi-authentication-and-identity-delegation Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:21:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/solutions/2013/03/11/microsoft-bi-authentication-and-identity-delegation/ Microsoft BI Authentication and Identity Delegation Whitepaper by Kay Unkroth http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn186184.aspx

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