1. Mile Hi Power BI User Group
February 9, 2017

2. Agenda News Announcements Featured Speaker(s) Closing
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3. 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)!

4. 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

5. Resources http://powerbi.com https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/
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7. 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 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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