Category Archives: PowerBI

Copilot for Microsoft Fabric not available because its capacity is located outside your tenant’s region

⚠️ If your Fabric tenant is located outside of the US or France, this blog post is for you! (addition to the already existing documentation) Today was the day – Copilot for Microsoft Fabric was released into public preview for … Continue reading

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Microsoft Fabric core-note at Microsoft Ignite 2023 (demos, features …)

I am not in Seattle this week so I had to watch the Fabric GA (general availability) announcement session with Amir, Arun, Justyna, Jessica and Patrick. And wow – although I could try and play with Microsoft Fabric in private … Continue reading

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Microsoft Ignite 2023 – What’s in for us as data professionals?

This week is Microsoft Ignite 2023 week and today was time for the keynote sessions and some major announcements. You can read more about all the news in the official Microsoft Ignite 2023 Book of News. Microsoft Fabric is general … Continue reading

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Microsoft Fabric – New Exam Alert: DP-600 (Implementing Analytics Solutions using Microsoft Fabric)

Have you heard about the new kid in town – Microsoft Fabric? In public preview since May 2023 (Microsoft Build) we had some time to play with it and build our first projects based on this new analytics, SaaS platform. … Continue reading

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Fabric Admins – Find the right tenant settings within seconds – Use the new search box

Another nice feature update for administrators hit Microsoft Fabric – tenant settings got a search box! Before the this new feature was added to the tenant settings page in October, you had one chance to search for the right tenant … Continue reading

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Microsoft Fabric – See the status for all workloads in one place

Hi Fabricators, Hi Fabric-Admins, I know this page existed for a longer period, but only for Power BI – https://support.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/support/. Now, with Microsoft Fabric in place, you get an overview about the service status of all the Fabric workloads there. … Continue reading

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A public repository with Fabric presentations from Microsoft

Are you searching for Microsoft Fabric Presentations? You want learn more about the new unified analytics solution? There are plenty of presentation available around the internet – some only as recordings, some as PDFs only. BUT – last week, I … Continue reading

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Testing Power BI row-level-security (RLS) got some improvements

Long time, no Power BI blog post from my side. But today I found out, that the testing of your row-level-security (RLS) logic in the Power BI service changed “a little bit” since I last used it. Whenever you want … Continue reading

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Create your own Microsoft Fabric Test Environment (based on a Microsoft365 Developer Tenant)

I want to test Fabric… is there an easy (and cost-effective aka free) way to do this? There is an easy way on how to test Microsoft Fabric in your own (dev) environment – for free! And event better: now … Continue reading

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Create a Microsoft 365 Developer Sandbox (including 25 E5 Test users) to test Power BI (and Fabric too)

Well… there is an easy way to start you Microsoft 365 test-journey today. With the Microsoft 365 Developer Program, you just create your own M365 sandbox – including 25 user E5 licenses for development purposes including fully configured sample data … Continue reading

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