A few weeks ago, I blogged about my experiences with the Analysis Services Connector. Because the Enterprise Gateway was still in preview back then, I didn't want to use that in production yet. Meanwhile the Enterprise Gateway has been released, so it's time to update my findings.
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While upgrading from Analysis Services Connector to the Power BI Enterprise Gateway, you might notice a change in authorization structure. Here's a brief description of the differences you need to know when upgrading. I thought there was a change in authorization structure, but I had didn't fully understand the way Analysis Services Connector authorizes its users.
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This Christmas holiday I spent some time fiddling with sensors to build a Proof of Concept on Azure IoT. In an earlier post I've shown how to connect your Azure IoT Hub data to a live Power BI dashboard, and as promised, here's part two: a description - as well as working code - how to
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Azure IoT Hub is public! And if you're a little bit like me, you want to play with it NOW - which is what I did. Guess what? It turns out to be not only easy, but also pretty cheap (not to mention awesome) to set up your IoT Proof of Concept!
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Last couple of weeks, I tried to install the Power BI Analysis Services Connector, and ran into a few issues (and found some solutions). I thought it'd be good to share them, in case anyone runs into the same issues. So here's my story of installing Power BI Analysis Services connector - translated to a
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Sometimes you get an error message that doesn't make any sense. "PC Load Letter" is quite a good example (Office Space, a great movie, shows how users react to such messages 😉 ). Here's an interesting one that I got when using Power View in Excel 2013 based on a tabular model: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005):
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