Additional reporting insights using the Get-PowerBIActivityEvent audit logs
I have been working on implementing changes with the new PowerShell script Get-PowerBIActivityEvent from the Power BI team. One of the awesome things is that I noticed that there are some additional fields in the data extract. This then allowed me to be able to…
How to find who has been allocated Power BI Licenses
I got this question the other day from a customer I am consulting at “How many Power BI Licenses do we have, and who are they allocated to?” I thought that this would be useful for other people to know where to find out how…
How to chat with Guest users in your default Microsoft Team
I recently have been working across multiple Microsoft Teams Tenants and one of the challenges I could not figure out was how can I chat to Guest users outside of the my default Microsoft Teams. The advantages of having a Guest user within your Microsoft…
How to quickly and easily copy a report with a shared dataset to another New App Workspace in the Power BI Service
I was working on some documentation for a customer and I came across a very quick and easy way to create a copy of a report which also creates a connection to the shared dataset that I could then copy to another “New Workspace” Before…
AAS Processing Error “Error returned: ‘M Engine error: ‘Microsoft.Data.Mashup; Token Comma expected”
I was recently working on an Azure Analysis Service – AAS project (It could also be a SQL Server Analysis Services – SSAS project), where I edited the M code using the wonderful Tabular Editor I hope that this will assist people who have a…
How I saved 40%+ on my Power BI Dataset size
I have been working with a customer who has a fairly large dataset. Part of my role was to see if there was any way to see how I could reduce the amount of memory being consumed, whilst still allowing for the same metrics to…
Did you know you can throttle the CPU and Memory on the Power BI On-Premise Data Gateways?
In this blog post below, I am going to show you how to configure the Load Balancing with CPU and Memory. I always recommend for On-Premise Data Gateway installations that there be at least 2 Gateways installed. The initial reason was to ensure that if…
Getting automatically notified for Power BI Support Issues
I had an interesting question from a good friend of mine on Twitter (Mim), where he asked if it was possible to get notified of when there are updates to Power BI Support issues. This got me thinking as I had already created my own…
Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate) Announcements from Ignite & SQL Pass
It is that time of the year when there are 2 massive Microsoft conferences happening at the same time. As I have done previously, please find below all the Power Platform announcements with some of my initial thoughts. I do get FOMO at not being…
AAS (Azure Analysis Services) / SSAS Tabular -Using BISM Normalizer to NOT Overwrite existing Partitions
I had partitions already configured and running on my AAS model. Partitions allow you to process only the data that needs to be updated. I have certainly done it in the past whereby mistake I updated all the partitions, which would mean I would then…