(Livestream Replay) Auto-magically Checking For Broken Visuals in Power BI - with John Kerski

DESCRIPTION 📄

A.K.A - Avoiding the "Grey Box of Death!"

Have you ever updated a semantic model/dataset and didn't realize it broke a visual in a Power BI report? Have you ever seen that "grey box of death" (or your customers call you about it) after making an update to Power BI? In this session, I demonstrate a way to combine Microsoft Playwright and Azure DevOps to automatically test for broken visuals and notify you about those issues.

GUEST BIO 👤

John leverages his 10+ years of technical and government leadership experience to help Federal Agencies, and private sector clients utilize Microsoft products to their fullest potential. His certifications with Microsoft products offers customers a high rate of return when looking to invest in Microsoft solutions.

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(Livestream Replay) Introduction to Fabric Studio - with Gerhard Brueckl

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In this session I will give you an introduction to the Visual Studio Code extension "Fabric Studio" which allows you to manage your Fabric environment directly from within VSCode. Leveraging the Fabric REST APIs you can easily browse through Fabric items and run various tasks. For not so common API calls there is also the ability to user VSCode notebooks offering intelli-sense and auto-complete from all existing API calls. It further allows you to modify existing items like semantic models, notebooks, pipelines, etc. in the VSCode IDE and publish your changes back to the Fabric service. It also features a OneLake browser to inspect the output of your operations.

GUEST BIO 👤

Gerhard has been working with the Microsoft Data Platform for almost 20 years. From building traditional BI/DWH solution on the MSSQL server stack to designing and implementing whole data platforms hosted in the Microsoft Azure cloud. He is also familiar with OSS technologies in that area like Hadoop, Spark and Delta Lakes. When not working on customer projects, Gerhard is an active member in the community and shares his knowledge in his blog or when speaking at conferences and meet-ups.

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Introducing PowerOps! (A NEW Productivity Tool for Power BI Developers)

Video by: Reid Havens

A True Game Changer! Introducing a New Tool (PowerOps), which brings a single platform to seamlessly analyze, Compare, Optimize, Version Control and Deploy the PowerBI Reports. Current Features:

• Analyze - Get the instant insights of Both Report and Model including Bookmarks, Filters, Dependencies(Lineage) and many more.

• Compare - Compare between different version of Report or Model and easily identify the Changes in both tabular and Visual formats.

• Best Practices - Effortlessly assess the Report and Model against best practices,, identifying the areas of concern. Additionally, you have the option to create or edit rules.

• Zero-touch - Version Control with Azure Devops/GITHUB, Workspace Sync Ready and More..

Speaker Bio 👤

Vijay Hemantha is the founder of Truviz Inc, Located in USA. With over two decades of hands-on experience in the data and analytics arena, he has navigated a multitude of technologies, platforms, and tools. He is passionate about Business intelligence and AI. He has helped many organizations transform their data into valuable insights and actionable outcomes. He is actively engaged with various industry leaders and BI experts to improve the productivity of MS Fabric professionals worldwide.

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(Livestream Replay) VisOps with PBI Inspector - with Nat Van Gulck

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Testing the visual layer of Power BI reports has usually been a manual task. Thanks to the new Power BI Project file format however there is an opportunity to automatically check for visuals' issues around accessibility, consistency and performance and thereby align with your organizations Power BI Center of Excellence guidelines. In this session we will see how PBI Inspector, an open-source community tool, supports this process.

GUEST BIO (Nat Van Gulck) 👤

I started my career over twenty years ago as a .NET Software Developer while also developing an interest for Data Visualization. This led me to work on Qlik and Tableau data projects. Then Power BI became so compelling that I had to join Microsoft. As a Cloud Solutions Architect I help customers be successful with Power BI; PBI Inspector is part of this endeavor. The adventure continues with Microsoft Fabric.

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