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Power BI – What Version of Power BI Desktop am I Running?
Power BI Desktop gets updated each month, packed with new functionality. When you encounter an issue and request help through the forums or with a colleague, one of the first questions you will be...
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Enabling Preview Features in Power BI Desktop
As the Power BI Desktop team releases monthly updates, some new features are released as “Preview Features”. You can easily enable these features through the option menu (File -> Options &...
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Power BI – 12 Days of Dashboards
With the holiday carol “The 12 Days of Christmas” playing in my head, I’m excited to announce my upcoming “12 Days of Power BI Dashboards” blog series, where I will be sharing a new Power BI dashboard...
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Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards – Day 1 – Goodreads Book Statistics
Day #1 – Goodreads Book Statistics As part of my Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards series, the 1st day of dashboards highlights Goodreads book statistics. Goodreads is an Amazon company with over 55...
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Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards – Day 2 – LinkedIn Connections
Day #2 – LinkedIn Connections Dashboard As part of my Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards series, the 2nd day of dashboards brings you a glimpse into your LinkedIn Connections. For the majority of the...
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Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards – Day 3 – Create your own Pinterest Viewer
Day #3 – Pinterest Viewer As part of my Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards series, the 3rd day of dashboards brings you a very simple Pinterest Viewer built in Power BI. The dashboard leverages the...
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Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards – Day 4 – Map of Countries Visited
Day #4 – Countries Visited Map As part of my Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards series, the 4th day of dashboards brings you a super simple way to display the countries you’ve visited on a map in an easy...
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Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards – Day 5 – Amazon.com Order History Dashboard
Day #5 – Amazon.com Order History Dashboard As part of my Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards series, the 5th day of dashboards brings you an easy way to view your Amazon.com Order History. I built this...
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Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards – Day 6 – Meetup.com Dashboard
Day #6 – Meetup.com Dashboard As part of my Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards series, the 6th day of dashboards introduces a Meetup.com dashboard that you can use as a Meetup Group owner to display the...
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Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards – Day 7 – Disk Usage Dashboard
Day #7 – Disk Usage Dashboard As part of my Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards series, day 7 brings you a new way to look at the old problem of disk space usage. I recently used Power BI in one of my...
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Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards – Day 8 – Fitbit Dashboard
Day #8 – Fitbit Activity Dashboard As part of my Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards series, day #8 showcases a customized Fitbit dashboard. This could easily be extended to build a dashboard for Garmin,...
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Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards – Day 9 – Building your first SCCM Report in...
Day #9 – Building your first SCCM ConfigMgr Report in Power BI As part of my Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards series, day #9 will take a slight twist to the current format and help walk you through...
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Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards – Day 10 – Exploring Twitter Data
Day #10 – Exploring Twitter Data As part of my Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards series, day #10 explores Twitter data with three different interactive dashboards. I’ve had a Twitter account for a few...
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Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards – Day 11 – NFL Football Touchdown Dashboard
Day #11 – NFL Football Touchdown Dashboard As part of my Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards series, I’m spending day #11 exploring NFL Football stats from www.pro-football-reference.com. As a huge sports...
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Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards – Day 12 – Crazy Christmas Dashboard
Day #12 – Crazy Christmas Dashboard As part of my Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards series, day #12 brings this big project to a close with a Christmas Dashboard socked full of a few new tricks I learned...
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Power BI Parameter Error – Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed
Today I encountered an issue in Power BI where a user was building a dashboard from a template I had created. The template has a single parameter, which is the full path to the exported .csv file....
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SSRS Report Manager Configuration Wizard failed when Applying Connection Rights
The SQL Server 2012 SSRS Report Manager Configuration Wizard failed when Changing Database on step “Applying Connection Rights” Error Message: Cannot alter the role ‘RSExecRole’, because it does not...
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Connecting to SSRS through Management Studio throws “Invalid Namespace” Error
When connecting to a SQL Server Reporting Services instance through Management Studio, I encountered the following error: Report Server WMI Provider error: Invalid namespace...
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SSRS Report Manager issues when using SSL
SSRS Report Manager issues when using SSL – The Report Manager menu was not seeming to honor the SSL configuration settings After 28 straight blog entries about Power BI topics*, my customer work this...
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Creating a New Project in Visual Studio fails when FIPS is enabled
While testing application compatibility on Windows 10, one of my customers encountered an issue creating a new project in Visual Studio 2015 when FIPS was enabled. A new project could be completed...
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