Mile Hi Power BI User Group February 9, 2017

Agenda News Announcements Featured Speaker(s) Closing Register for an account on http://community.powerbi.com and claim your Mile Hi Power BI User Group badge by going to http://goo.gl/WH9t5V after verifying your account Please complete an online survey at http://aka.ms/PUGSurvey after the meeting, use PUG ID 117 for Mile Hi Power BI User Group. Agenda

Tonight’s Topic Using Virtual Machines to Test/Demo BI Tools Looking for a way to test out new BI tools without messing up your computer with betas or software that you may not use again? Virtual Machine technology has become much easier to use over the years and is even available for free. See how you can use VMs to make this work easier and how to do it all for free and even on your laptop (Windows or Mac)!

Calendar 02/15: Boulder SQL Server User Group 02/15: Colorado Springs SQL Server User Group 02/16: Denver SQL Server User Group 02/25: SQLSaturday Denver BI Edition – DU Campus 03/07: Denver Area Access User Group 03/09: Mile Hi Power BI User Group 03/16: TDWI Denver 03/25: SQLSaturday Colorado Springs Calendar

Resources http://powerbi.com https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/ http://community.powerbi.com http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powerbi/ https://www.youtube.com/user/mspowerbi http://visuals.powerbi.com https://www.edx.org/microsoft-professional-program-certficate- data-science Resources

Spread the word! Website: milehipowerbi.com Email: info@milehipowerbi.com PUG: http://goo.gl/WH9t5V - PUG ID 117 Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/MileHiPowerBI/ LinkedIn: https://goo.gl/uxuD1E Facebook: https://goo.gl/rAqCC0 Twitter: @milehipowerbi Spread the word!

News/Updates See how Microsoft Treasury uses Power BI with the US Consumer Personal Spending dashboard SSIS Scale Out is available in SQL Server vNext CTP1 More Detail On Detail Rows Expressions In SSAS Tabular V.Next Azure Active Directory meets Power BI Get List of Queries in Power BI SQL Server next version CTP 1.2 now available VertiPaq Analyzer 1.7: a fundamental tool for diagnostics and documentation Data Visualization Heroes Power BI Subscriptions Understanding R for non-scientists with Power BI ASTrace on the Analysis Services Git Repo Inserting data into a PowerBI Dataset via Flow and the REST APIs Power BI reports in SQL Server Reporting Services: January 2017 Technical Preview now available The Power BI Sales Management solution template for Salesforce now supports Azure Data Factory! Introducing email subscriptions in Power BI: stay informed when it matters Push data to Power BI streaming datasets without writing any code using Microsoft Flow How to insert a live Power BI report from SQL Server Reporting Services into a PowerPoint slide Materials and Q&A of PASS BA VC Session: Take Power BI Visualization to the Next Level

News/Updates Power BI Mobile apps feature summary – January 2017 Announcing General Availability of Power BI Real-Time Streaming Datasets Power BI Service January Feature Summary Released: SQL Server Data Tools 17.0 RC 2 Get Your SQL Server Product Key with Powershell Now in preview: Conversational BI with Q&A on Power BI mobile apps (iOS) Power BI Desktop February Feature Summary Integrate Power BI reports in SharePoint Online

Virtual Machines Virtual Machines (VM) Defined Ability to run another “computer” within your laptop or desktop VM is usually referred to as the Guest Laptop or Desktop you are running the VM software on is the Host Requires specialized software to control the VMs and make sure it does not effect the host computer in any way All hardware in guest is virtualized and appears to the guest as if it is running on a full computer Still requires licenses for Operating System and software running in guest, but it is possible to use evaluation versions to save costs Uses more resources on host computer since some of the CPU and Memory have to be reserved by guest VM to be virtualized Host computer support of virtualization extensions in firmware is required for some VM software (VT-x on Intel) especially for 64bit support in guest Virtual Machines

VM Software Windows MacOS Linux Microsoft Hyper-V – Built into Windows (including Server), but only available in some licenses and must be setup in Windows Features Oracle VirtualBox – Free software from Oracle VMWare Server/Workstation – Enterprise level Virtual Machine support MacOS Oracle VirtualBox – Same free software from Oracle VMWare Fusion – Integrates VMs into MacOS Parallels – Deep integration into MacOS even for Windows as the guest Linux Oracle VirtualBox Others? VM Software

Take advantage of snapshots to allow for reset of VM back to that point in time Use dynamic sizing of VM HDD to save on local storage, but make sure to keep enough free on host HDD for the full space Don’t allocate too many resources to guest VM, can make entire system unstable Depending on your host computer you may be able to run multiple VMs Create a VM with just the OS and tools you will always need installed, then clone/copy that VM to make new VMs with SQL Server, etc. for evaluation/testing Backup your VMs! Watch out for licensing restrictions VM Helpful Hints