Cha Cha…Changing your ConfigMgr Reports Garth Jones Chief Architect Enhansoft

Garth Jones is Chief Architect at Enhansoft, an Ottawa-based company that develops products and services to extend the value of System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch (CMCB), System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (CM12), System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (CM07) and System Center Intune. Garth started working with Systems Management Server (SMS) back in 1996. He is an MVP for System Center Enterprise Client Management (formerly System Center Configuration Manager). Garth is the lead author for System Center Configuration Manager Reporting Unleashed. He is an active participant in Microsoft’s forums, as well as on windows-noob.com and myITForum.com. Garth is the founder of the Ottawa Windows Server User Group (OWSUG) and its associated study group. He currently holds the title of Past President

SSDT-BI vs RB vs Power-BI Creating a Dashboard (report) Takeaways Agenda SSDT-BI vs RB vs Power-BI Creating a Dashboard (report) Takeaways Question and Answers

What are your goals for this session? Its All about You. What are your goals for this session? How much SQL query experience does the Group have? How much Report writing experience does the Group have?

What Other Tools do I Need?

What OtheR Tools do I Need?

SSDT-BI vs RB vs Power-BI Full Name SQL Server Data Tool (BI or Reporting Services) Report Builder Power-BI Desktop Need to Write SQL Queries? Yes Arrange Report Sets in a project No Sort of Cached Data If configured Who should view the report anyone PowerUser Who should create the report Admin Admin / PowerUser

Use Views Only

Use Existing SQL Queries Create Similar Dashboard (set) Demo Overview Use Existing SQL Queries Create Similar Dashboard (set) 1- Power-BI Desktop & 1 - SSDT-BI Do the Little Things

Takeaways – Reporting Tools SQL Server Data Tools for Visual Studio 2015 (SSDT-BI) PowerBI Report Builder (RB) SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS)

Takeaways – Thing to Remember Writer SQL Your Query first in SSMS Use the Reporting tool you are comfortable with! Don’t create reports in production! Use the Microsoft Data source for your reports Do the little things

Takeaways – Social Media Garth Jones https://twitter.com/garthmj Eswar Koneti https://twitter.com/eskonr Harjit Dhaliwal https://twitter.com/Hoorge Matthew Teegarden https://twitter.com/TheEmptyGarden Steve Thompson https://twitter.com/Steve_TSQL