Power BI Pro Tip: Troubleshooting Power BI Data Refresh
With Power BI you can create an Excel sheet based on your data and then get it refreshed so your report always has the latest information. If you run into trouble with this, here is how to…
Power BI Pro Tip: Troubleshooting Data Management Gateway stability
If your Data Management Gateway crashes a lot, just make sure you have .NET framework version 4.5.1 or later installed. 4.5.1. introduced fixes that the Data Management Gateway needs. If you install it and reboot the server…
Top 3 of what is new in Power Query for Excel
Just recently the December update of Power Query for Excel has been published. See this blog post on the Power BI for the details: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powerbi/archive/2013/12/13/one-step-closer-to-simplifying-data-analysis-and-visualization-new-features-added-to-power-bi-for-office-365-and-power-query-add-in-for-excel-preview.aspx. In this post I want to give you my personal top 3:…
The wait is almost over…
It’s almost Christmas! Well, uh, that’s not actually why I wrote this post. I noticed a note on the Power BI blog that says: “In a few days we will enable the ability to explore your own…
Power BI Demo Contest
I want to draw your attention to a contest that we run: the Power BI Demo Contest. All you need to do is create a short video of something cool you built using Power BI and share…
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