Microsoft DevOps workshop in a city near you
The interest in the DevOps labs I wrote for using the new Microsoft DevOps Tools has been really great! If you missed the post on the labs; you can see them here: Continuous Integration Continuous...
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DevOps Lab for Microsoft Services
Friday I am delivering a DevOps lab to Services and thought I would place it on my personal blog so they can refer to it later. Labs: Creating Test Environment with Dev/Test Lab Running a Load Test...
View ArticleImporting Office 365 contacts en mass using Power Shell
One of the less pleasant parts of my role is adding people to distribution lists…. The Office365 UI certainly doesn’t make this easy! Turns out it is pretty easy with Power Shell.. Saving all my...
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Scheduling Load Tests
(Blogging here this week we have a blogging embargo on the ALM Blog-will republish as soon as it is lifted) After publishing the post Load Testing from different geographies with Cloud-based load...
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DevOps PHP Sample for Cory Fowler and his PHPWorld Presentation
As you may have seen from the DevOps presentation I have been hanging out with Cory lately… For his PHPWorld Presentation we teamed up to see how hard it would be to get our DevOps demo working...
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Power Bi Webinar 5/17: Introduction to Power BI for the Excel User by Matt...
Thank you for the MANY that joined Marc Reguera’s Dashboard Makeover: Learn how to make your data shine. If you missed that webinar you can view the recording here. If was clear from the questions...
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The new Uservoice Sidebar
As most of my coworkers know i joined the Power BI Team. One thing they are truly passionate about is product interaction and product feedback. We do this several different ways with Uservoice one of...
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Free Power BI Webinar 5/24: Data Preparation is the Keystone by Reza Rad
During this week’s session on getting started with Power BI for the Excel user; there were several questions about data prep and how to use Dax to create easy to use data models. Which is a perfect...
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How to call REST APIs and parse JSON with Power BI
Just finished this week’s Power BI community webinar: Data Preparation is the Keystone by Reza Rad and one of the questions asked was: Can you use Power BI to call REST APIs and parse JSON? As luck...
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Free Power BI Community Webinar 5/31: DAX best practices from the field by...
The Power BI Community Webinar Series is designed to facilitate the sharing of best practices and the best community sessions through a medium that is available to you –regardless of your location....
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Free Power BI Webinar 6/7: Advanced Power BI and Solving the Hard Problems
The Power BI Community webinars are brought to you by the experts doing real world implementations and sharing their hard earned best practices. In this weeks session Devin Knight shares with us what...
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Live Site Issue–Purchasing Power BI Pro from website down
Please this has been resolved! If you want to purchase Power BI please see: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing...
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Free Power BI Webinar 6/14: Going Hardcore on your Business Intelligence with...
Adam delivered one of the first presentations in the world on Power BI and this living legend will be delivering next weeks community Webinar: Going Hardcore on your Business Intelligence with Power...
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Resetting your Power BI password
This is blog is a work in progress and here just to catch my initial screen shots Have a couple people indicate resetting Passwords in Power BI is harder than it needs to be. So thought i would take a...
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Week of June 20th Webinars: Power BI Security and Introduction to M by Chris...
Going forward the Power BI team will be doing two webinars per week. The first will be on Tuesdays hosted by an industry expert or community leader sharing their knowledge, best practices and guidance...
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Week of June 27th Webinars: Microsoft covering Leveraging PowerApps and Marco...
This June 27th brings you a new product offering called PowerApps and one of the legends of the Power BI community Marco Russo. The week of July 4th no webinars due to the US Independence day...
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Calling REST APIs and Parsing JSON made simple with Power BI
Most development teams and software architecture is moving to loosely coupled service libraries based on REST APIs passing JSON objects. Traditionally this is complex programing due to threading and...
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PBIX bloat: a cause and the “solution”
Had a customer report that their 100kb Excel file was bloating to 77mb when imported into Power BI desktop. Turns out the behavior that customer was hitting is by design. Which begs the questions:...
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Free Power BI Community Webinar 7/26: Predictive Analytics Using Power BI...
In this Webinar active local Seattle Usergroup leader, David Brown will show us how Predictive Analytics is being used in a large consumer goods company and a school district, combining the simple,...
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