1. Administering and Deploying Power BI Solutions

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8. Seth Bauer Twitter: @Seth_C_Bauer
Technical BI Architect
Microsoft Data Platform MVP (Power BI)
PUG Leader
PUG Leader - Board of Advisors
MSFT Community
PowerBI.tips
SQL SAT Madison Organizer
Contact Info
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9. Agenda Overview Administrative Features & Functions
Monitoring The Environment
Power BI Deployment Strategies
Sharing Methods

10. Power BI Supports All Solutions
Business Led: Excel, CSV, Web, SharePoint Lists, 3rd party services
IT Managed: BA or reporting teams working with IT to get data sets or reports, building out solutions for end users Excel, SQL reports, or procedures
Corporate: SSAS tabular or MD cubes

11. Components and Services
Power BI Visuals Gallery
Open Source Code
Visuals Created by Microsoft and Community
Power BI Support Site
Getting Started, Knowledge Base, Video Library,
Product Support, Ideas
Power BI Community
Forum for Q/A
Power BI User Groups (PUGs)
Power BI Desktop
Modeling and Reports
Local machine (Download)
Power BI Service
Reports and Sharing
(Saas) app.powerbi.com
Power BI Mobile
Consume Dashboard Content
Collaboration
Power BI Development
API
Embedded

12. The Finished Product Mobile Reports Dashboards Talking Points:
Desktop/Service
Data Mashup or connection
Reports from simple to spectacular, amazing amount of potential out of the box
Dashboards for sharing/combine reports
Mobile – stay connected
Resources:
Dashboards

13. Administrative Features & Functions

14. Tenant Settings Permissions to Access Admin Portal
All or Nothing vs. Enable Groups
Where is this?
Global Admin in O365 or Azure Active Directory OR
Be assigned the Power BI Service Administrator Role
Enable for All
Disable for All
Enable / Disable for Groups
Demo Tenant Settings / Features and Functionality

15. Access & Permission Control
Managed vs. Un-Managed Tenant
License Provisioning
Gateways
My Workspace vs. App Workspace
Man vs. UnMan – IT Takeover
O365 Administration of Licensing vs. Open – Touch on and look into portions of this for further detail
This can be done via O365 in managed Tenant
PowerShell to script assignment based on Audit logs or list of users in an O365 Unified Group or AAD Groups
Gateways:
Only Server Admins can install on Enterprise hardware
Must be admin on gateway to see all datasources
Data Sources get users
Users have access to deploy report using data source
The data source must match exactly
App Workspace – Control via O365 Group creation
Power Shell Commands

16. Monitoring Tools

17. Report Tools Usage Metrics (Workspace level)* Audit Logs in O365* Apps
(APIs) - Neal Analytics
Usage Metrics on Dashboard / Report / Build a report for workspace
Create Sample on this
Enable Audit Logs – Visualize Log Data via CSV – 3 months
O365 Adoption Preview – License Usage – 12 months

22. Power BI Deployment Strategies

23. Power BI Process Same Language for All Tools M Language for ETL
Manual Processes
Automate Data Load
Same Language for All
Tools
M Language for ETL
DAX for Models
Path to Absorb PBI Models
Into SSAS Solution
Scale Up

24. Common Goal Strategy Centralized Departmental Discovery ETL Warehouse
Model
Departmental
Discovery
Define
Mashup
Build Reports
Data Catalog
Common Definitions
Change Management
Different parts of the company with different goals. Each Centralized cycle begins in the common area where Departments are constantly adding information
Change Management
Requirements
Report Request
Model update
Common Definitions
Master Data Repository / Data Catalog
Business Process Development

25. Common Goal Process IT Initiatives – Centralized Models Sales
Marketing
Finance
Department Initiatives
Report 1
Report 2
Report 3
Report 4
Report 5
Report 6
Blue means the data is centralized in a warehouse / model
The other colors depict how business will be continually developing and building the needed reports and metrics out in front of IT
The conversion to blue means that the back end reports have been merged

26. Sharing Methods

27. Dashboards
Tiles
Link To Many Reports

28. Reports
Direct Share
No Need for Dashboard
Same Process

29. Content Packs Dashboard/Report/Dataset End User Copies
(Being Deprecated)

30. Apps 1 : 1 with App Workspace Push to End User
Replacement for Content Packs

31. Embedded
SharePoint Online
Internal / External Applications

32. Thanks for Coming! Seth Bauer
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