UPDATE 11/26/2020: After the latest update to tenant settings, I'm glad that the new "Export to ..." settings don't affect external connections anymore. There is now a new setting "Allow live connections" to control external connectivity. Read "Updated Export Settings" to learn more. The Power BI "Export data" setting is horrible. I wish Microsoft never came up with it and no other Microsoft tool has…
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"Life is suffering and suffering is unavoidable". Buddha must have dealt with data gateways. Two "gotchas" that surfaced recently after countless hours of troubleshooting: A bug in the data gateway AD lookup cache – In my "Gateway AD Lookups" post, I described a very useful gateway feature to look up the on-prem user identity from a cloud identity so that you don't have to create…
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I'm currently providing advisory services to an enterprise client for architecting and implementing an executive dashboard. As a typical dashboard, the UX design included various KPIs that look like these: The Power BI report implementation followed the design and the above visualization was implemented as four cards and two textboxes. Including other UX elements, such as icons, labels, etc., the most important summary page of…
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More and more organizations are switching to Microsoft Teams mostly for online meetings. However, Microsoft Teams can deliver much more than that and it will be unjust to compare it with other popular meetings apps. In this newsletter you'll learn how Prologika helped a public school district gain important insights from Microsoft Teams. Learn more and try an interactive Power BI report in the related…
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You have deployed your Power BI reports/apps and now management is eager to use them. But how do you provide an easy one-tap shortcut for them to launch a specific report or app on mobile devices and open them in Power BI Mobile? For example, in a recent project, we had to provide executives with an easy "button" to see their executive dashboard on iPhone/iPad.…
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