1. Connecting Power BI to On-Prem SSAS Tabular Kerry L. Tyler SQL Saturday #390 Philadelphia

2. 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

3. 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 |

4. 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 |

5. Power BI v2 Demo 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL5 |

6. Power BI Analysis Services Connector (ASC) Demo! 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL6 |

7. Azure IaaS DAX Architecture 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL7 | DAX Power BI Preview ? ? klt@corp.com corp\klt Results klt@corp.com

8. 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 |

9. 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 |

10. 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 |

11. ASC Setup 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL11 |

12. First, Get the Connector (Signed in)… 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL12 |

13. Get the Connector (Not Signed In) 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL13 |

14. 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 |

15. …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 |

16. ASC Setup Demo 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL16 |

17. 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 |

18. 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 |

19. 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 |

20. 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 |

21. 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 |

22. Questions? 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL22 |

23. Contact Kerry L. Tyler Blog: www.airbornegeek.com Twitter: @AirborneGeek Email: klt@outlook.com 06/06/2015| SQL Saturday #390 PHL23 |