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Connecting Power BI to On-Prem SSAS Tabular Kerry L. Tyler SQL Saturday #390 Philadelphia
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About Me Recovering Sysadmin Ten years of data—Varying degrees of SQL Server Engine & BI Currently Senior BI Developer/Consultant in Nashville Used to fly little airplanes 2 |06/06/20152 || SQL Saturday #390 PHL
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Agenda Discuss/Demo new Power BI Preview Demo Connector Connector’s Architecture/How it Works Setup Walkthrough Pros/Cons/Caveats 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL3 |
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Power BI Preview “v2” Replaces “Power BI for Office 365” No longer requires O365 Licensing (completely stand-alone product) New dashboard “Offline” designer Free version! Emphasis on the “Preview” 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL4 |
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Power BI v2 Demo 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL5 |
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Power BI Analysis Services Connector (ASC) Demo! 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL6 |
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Azure IaaS DAX Architecture 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL7 | DAX Power BI Preview ? ? klt@corp.com corp\klt Results klt@corp.com
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ASC, AD, and “Effective Username” The Power BI login needs to match the UPN of an AD user 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL8 |
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ASC, AD, and “Effective Username” (con’t) This could break in a number of scenarios O365 @blah.onmicrosoft.com email address Email Address doesn’t match AD login name Multiple domains involved in Trust(s) between ASC, SSAS, where users live, etc Dealt with via AAD dirsync Log in to PBI with actual UPN 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL9 |
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AuthN/Z ASC connects to SSAS using dedicated account (more on this later) Within the Tabular Model, security behaves as it normally would Role membership(s) Row-level security 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL10 |
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ASC Setup 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL11 |
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First, Get the Connector (Signed in)… 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL12 |
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Get the Connector (Not Signed In) 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL13 |
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Things You’ll Need Domain-joined servers (SSAS & ASC) Decide where to install ASC requires.NET 4.5.1 Domain account with “sa” rights on target SSAS box* Security within the model configured “like you usually would” 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL14 |
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…about that asterisk Think about/Treat this like you would any other Service Account Password Expriry Treat it separately from the Engine sa accounts 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL15 |
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ASC Setup Demo 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL16 |
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Things You Can Do Use real-time Tabular data to feed any dashboard or report object Upload Excel Workbooks with Power Views in them which utilize SSAS Tabular The DMG does still exist, so can still use it to refresh workbooks 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL17 |
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Things You Can’t Do Install the ASC on same machine as DMG Install more than one instance of ASC on a single machine Feed this on-prem data to Power BI Q&A Tug on Superman’s cape 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL18 |
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Things You Probably Should Know Each ASC can only talk to a single SSAS Instance This could get messy “Sharing” may or may not work like you expect Dashboard Tiles refresh every 10 minutes 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL19 |
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The Future! Paid sub (“Power BI Pro”) will be required to use ASC Multidimensional access is “coming” (!) Mobile Power BI app for Android Expect fast changes Go forth and use Power BI, even if regs or little Power Pivot data islands kept you from using it before 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL20 |
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URLs/References www.powerbi.com www.powerbi.com Pricing/Feature comparison breakdown: http://powerbi.microsoft.com/pricing http://powerbi.microsoft.com/pricing Troubleshooting ASC: https://support.powerbi.com/knowledgebase/ articles/505324-troubleshooting-analysis- service-connector https://support.powerbi.com/knowledgebase/ articles/505324-troubleshooting-analysis- service-connector 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL21 |
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Questions? 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL22 |
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Contact Kerry L. Tyler Blog: www.airbornegeek.com Twitter: @AirborneGeek Email: klt@outlook.com 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL23 |
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