Power BI Report Server Archives

Episode 41 – The New Power BI Report Server is Here

This is episode 41 recorded on March 15th 2018… where John & Jason talk to Riccardo Muti, Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft for Power BI and SQL Server Reporting Services, about the latest Power BI Report Server release & the direction he sees the product going in the future

Episode 23 – Interview with Dave Feldman

This is episode 23 recorded on November 7th, 2017… where John & Jason talk to about the new single-sign on methods for the Power BI service and an interview with Dave Feldman, Microsoft MVP from Shire Pharmaceuticals.

News:
Blog post by Miguel Llopis: Announcing Single Sign-On Support when connecting to data sources from the Power BI Service
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-single-sign-on-support-when-connecting-to-data-sources-from-the-power-bi-service/

“… it is now possible to use Single Sign-On, leveraging Kerberos, when connecting to certain data sources using DirectQuery mode from Power BI.”

Config link: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-gateway-kerberos-for-sso-pbi-to-on-premises-data/

Support for Single Sign-On is available for the following data sources as of today:

- SQL Server
- Teradata
- SAP HANA

Additional data sources will be added:

EOY 2017

- Impala
- Oracle
- SAP BW

H1 2018

- Spark
- And others…

Interview notes:
“Using BI to make intelligent business decisions”TyGraph, HyperFish & onPrem IIS Logs to do proper analysis around what was being used during the planning phases of the integration between Shire & BaxaltaThe analysis fueled Dave’s migration decisionsLooking into the future to multi-geo decision planning for SharePoint Online

Links:
Shire’s Hub and Link Web Parts: https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-solutions/tree/master/solutions/LinksAndHandlebarsTemplate
Dave’s blog: http://bostonmusicdave.com/
Hyperfish: https://www.hyperfish.com/
tyGraph: https://www.tygraph.com/

Episode 22 – Power BI Report Server release news

This is episode 22 recorded on November 2nd, 2017… where John & Jason talk to about the brand new release of Power BI Report Server, PowerApps custom visuals, & Power BI Licensing.

Show Notes:

Power BI Report Server new version

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-version-of-power-bi-report-server-now-available/

Scheduled Data Refresh
REST API (SSRS stuff)
Direct Query Support
Shared Data connection via Odata
Report filtering with URL parameters
Episode 17 on PBIRS w\ Chris Finlan

PowerApps Custom Visual

PowerApp on a report, not just a tile

PowerApp visual can be filtered

Another post about licensing

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-pro-power-bi-premium-flexibility-to-choose-the-licensing-best-for-you-and-your-organization/

PBI Report Theme Generators

Online – https://powerbi.tips/tools/report-theme-generator-v3/

Excel Based – https://hopeinternational.box.com/s/gd57sn7djq0bs6p2miut62extxdgucwn

Office them to PBI theme converter – https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkRyAgtzGndznMl3VKm1K8YJp0wsHQ

“Everything you wanted to know” Workshops

John speaking at ESPC

https://www.sharepointeurope.com/events/everything-wanted-know-power-bi-afraid-ask/

SPFest Chicago (use code WHITE for a discount)

http://www.sharepointfest.com/Chicago/index.php/sessions/workshops

SPFest DC (use code WHITE for a discount)

http://www.sharepointfest.com/DC/index.php/sessions/46-workshops/monday-workshops/148-ws-107-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-power-bi-but-were-afraid-to-ask

SharePoint Conference North America (use code JASEHIMM for a discount)< /p>

http://www.sharepointna.com

Episode 17 – Live from Ignite with Chris Finlan

This is episode 17 recorded on September 26th, 2017 where John & Jason interview Chris Finlan, Program Manager on the SQL Server Reporting Services/Power BI Reporting Server team live at Ignite 2017, and talked at length about the announcements made at Ignite 2017, and about on-premises BI in general.