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July Power Apps Community Call: Demo Extravaganza Finalists!
The community has spoken, and the top 5 Top Entries have been chosen! The July 15th Power Apps community call is your chance to see these Power Apps artisans show off their creations and discuss how they built these amazing samples! When: July 15th, 2020 8:00am PST Where: https://aka.ms/powerappscall-join (No Specific Order) About Michelle Wong @MichelleWongNL Michelle is a Microsoft 365 Consultant that has adopted and embraced the Power Platform.
June 17th Power Apps Community Call: School Bus Check-In, Center of Excellence and Power Apps Mobile
Welcome to the Power Apps community call. These calls are the 3rd Wednesday of each month where we will share the latest news about Power Apps, demonstrate tips and show the tools to help build incredible Power Apps. In these calls you will meet the Power Apps product team and community experts to get your questions answered.
May Power Apps community call and announcing Demo Extravaganza 2020
This month our Power Apps community call host, Todd Baginski continues to deliver and brings us some of the most exciting technology to hit the Power Platform. This month Todd will be show casing Mixed Reality with Power Apps, Power Automate integration with Power Virtual Agents and enhancing your Chatbots using entities .
What is new and exciting for Power Virtual Agents Webinar May 15th
Since the release of Power Virtual Agents December of 2019, the development team has added a myriad of new features! In this webinar your hosts Reza Dorrani, Tomasz Poszytek and Charles Sterling will take you on a tour of these new features, show you how to use them, walk through hard earned best practices and make themselves available to answer your questions.
January 2020 Power Apps community call: Introduction to Solutions and Power Virtual Agents
Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, Friday, January 10, 2020 Welcome to the Power Apps community call. These calls are the 3rd Wednesday of each month where we will share the latest news about Power Apps, demonstrate tips and tools to help you build awesome Power Apps. In these calls you will meet the Power Apps product team and community experts to get your questions answered.
Webinar 1/8: How to effectively tell a story with your data and Power BI with Ruth Pozuelo Martinez
January 7, 2019January 7, 2019 by Charles Sterling 0 Comments You have millions of rows of data stored in your data warehouse, you have it accessible and available for business users and report users, but how do you effectively tell a story using all that data? How do you unlock the secrets and the potential your data has?
Microsoft Power Series at the 2019 Power Summit Europe
In addition to other the other 20 tracks lead by the community, technical experts and Industry luminaries presenting at the upcoming Power Platform Summit and User Group Summit Europe event in Amsterdam, the Microsoft Team will be there in full force presenting the Microsoft Power Series track– over 14 hours of deep dive and hands on content.
The Power BI World Tour is back in 2019 as the Power Platform World Tour!
December 19, 2018December 19, 2018 by Charles Sterling 0 Comments The Power BI World Tour is back in 2019 as the Power Platform World Tour! It’s all the Power BI content you’ve come to expect from Microsoft team members, MVPs, Champions, and Subject Matter experts but this year’s Power Platform World Tour will now include PowerApps and Microsoft Flow content.
Power BI solution templates moving to open source
January 1, we will be moving Power BI solution templates to open source. This has the following implications: The github repository will remain open and anyone can build solutions on the Power BI solution template code base. The existing appsource entries for solution templates will be retired and links to appsource from Power BI will be removed. One of the solution templates, Power BI Usage Metrics, is being hosted by its author, Neal Analytics, and will be available from appsource.
Now Blogging @ Http://Sterlings.Life
Now Blogging @ Http://Sterlings.Life Hard to believe after 14 years and 1,000 posts I am moving blogs! MSDN is focusing on core product blogs and encouraging community people to find new hosts so after almost no researching decided to use wordpress @ http://Sterlings.Life
Webinar 10/23: Advanced data prep with Power BI dataflows for unified data and powerful insights
Look at the all new Power BI dataflows with Program manager Anton Fritz Power BI dataflows’ public preview is just around the corner, in this session the product team will introduce you the new and advanced capabilities for data-prep in Power BI. Preparing and defining ETL for insights is significant challenge for businesses today—ingestion, cleansing, transformation, and enrichment are labor-intensive and time-consuming tasks, which require deep technical skills.
Creating the perfect MVP Summit
Was asked to share some thoughts on creating the Perfect MVP Summit. Every year we ask MVP’s what they want from the MVP Summit and every year the answers are the same: Despite this incredibly simple set of directives we still manage to get this turned around. Luckily for my MVPs I am an incredibly simple person .
Creating a new Azure Active Directory and AAD backed Accounts
For teaching classes or testing access to many Microsoft services is it common to need a new AAD backed account. Turns out this is both free AND easy as 1-2-3. Navigate to Azure Portal at and select the Active Directory blade and select “Create New Directory” the direct link is: In the Active Directory blade select “All users” and then “New User” Under the new user dialog fill out their name and user name.
10/11 Webinar: How to use Power Query and M to create calendar tables with Tristan Malherbe
Calendar tables are an absolute requirement for time-intelligence calculations and best practices in Power BI. In this week’s webinar Power BI MVP Tristan Malherbe will deliver a webinar on how to build a proper calendar table using Power Query and M language. Demos to include building calendar tables from from scratch! Tristan Malherbe, a Power Microsoft MVP, a renowned Business Intelligence Consultant at AZEO and President of the Power BI User Group in France.
MVP In Residence 2.0?
While on the Visual Studio team a cool project that we ran with the MVPs (three different times) was the MVP Intern program. In this program, an MVP would come out and work with the product team to deliver some tool/feature/paper/template etc. Willy-Peter Schaub and Ed Blankenship actually came out and lived in my house! Reading an old post of mine on the topic: MVP in Residence- final recap (also included below for RSS readers) got me musing about if this make sense for my “Power MVPs”.
November 2018 Update Webinar for Power BI Embedding with Ted Pattison
November 2018 Update Webinar for Power BI Embedding with Ted Pattison Join Ted Pattison and Charles Sterling as they discuss the latest updates to the Power BI embedding features offered through the Power BI Service. Ted will also walk through how to leverage Power BI embedding techniques when developing single page applications (SPAs) with React.js and when developing React webparts with the SharePoint Framework.
Webinar 10/2: Creative DAX solutions by Philip Seamark
Did you know the DAX language is far more capable than merely running a SUM over a column, or counting rows in a table? DAX sits on top of one of the fastest databases around, and this webinar will explore some unusual and creative scenarios that you may not have thought of as feasible.
Presentation Skills … a la Chuck by Willy-Peter Schaub
I have done lots of presentation skills sessions and with MSDN cleaning up old blogs I didn’t want to lose my dear friend’s (Willy-Peter Schaub) write up and kind words. Reprinting with his permission Charles, alias Chuck , who works with us in the DevX Customer and Project Management team, is hosting internal, interactive, informal, invaluable and fun presentation skills sessions.
See Power BI Preview Features in action at the Power BI World Tour
With the Power BI Release Notes you can get visibility into what the PowerApps, Flow and Power BI teams are planning. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/October18/intelligence-platform/. We are proud to announce at the up coming Power BI World Tour we will be showing many of these features live in demos and break out sessions.
9/20 Webinar: Comments in Power BI -a new hub to discuss data and collaborate by Nikhil Gaekwad
This week’s Webinar, Power BI Program Manager Nikhil Gaekwad will look at how you can directly add comments to dashboards and specific visuals to discuss your data. You can also pull people into your conversation by @mentioning others within your organization. Commenting is tightly integrated with Power Bi mobile, so those you’ve @mentioned will quickly receive a notification and email with your message. Nikhil Gaekwad is a Product Manager on the Power BI service team at Microsoft.
James Phillips Announced as the User Group Summit Phoenix Keynote
User groups are one of the best and easiest ways to get started with a new technology such as the Microsoft Power Platform. If you aren’t familiar with the Microsoft Power Platform it enables a powerful, point-and-click approach to app building. Making it easy for anyone familiar with Microsoft Office to customize and extend Dynamics 365 and Office 365 and build a new category of apps leveraging Power BI, PowerApps and Microsoft Flow.
Using SVG Images in Power BI with David Eldersveld
In this webinar David Eldersveld shows how you can work with SVG images as Image URLs Power BI. In the August update Power BI was enhanced to enable the dynamic creation of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images making it now it is possible to create measures that dynamically update to account for user selections and filters. This technique is available for use with any visual that renders Image URLs as an image.
9/6 Webinar: New Power BI tools and new templates including a walk through of Cool Blue and the layout Purple Haze
In this week’s webinar the owners of PowerBI.Tips and Power BI MVPs, Seth Bauer and Mike Carlo join me again share with you their ever increasing grab bag of Power Tricks, Tips and Tools they have published to http://PowerBI.Tips over the last 18 months. Demo’s to include their theme generator their latest Power BI layouts (and a tour of their latest layout “Purple Haze”). Seth is a Technical Architect with Concurrency Inc. and is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP (Power BI).
Background Images not appearing in Power BI Desktop (Dashboard in a Day Training Update)
Finishing up the University of Washington Data Visualization course last night and wanted to show the students how powerful and easy using a background image can be for creating stunning reports. (For great examples of this in action please see the http://Powerbi.tips/layouts). This technique is something we also highlight in our core training called “Dashboard In Day”.
Connect with the Microsoft Power BI Team at Power Summit Phoenix October 15-18 in Phoenix, AZ
Bringing all the local user groups together for collaboration, networking and hands-on learning opportunities You’re invited to join Microsoft at Power Summit Phoenix, held October 15-18 in Phoenix, AZ at the Phoenix Convention Center. Hosted by the Power Platform User Groups, this inaugural event blends special access to Microsoft leadership with credible peer-to-peer knowledge exchange.
Webinar 8/10: Derive actionable insights using real-world visualizations to your Power BI dashboards using Visio
As you know the Visio custom visual for Power BI has been preview for a while. This webinar is to announce and discuss the general availability of this exciting new offering.
Webinar 8/16: Building a KPI Scorecard w/ Custom Visuals in Power BI with Reid Havens
Back in the control room with local favorite and Power BI User Group leader Reid Havens covering Building a KPI Scorecard w/ Custom Visuals in Power BI. In this week’s webinar, Reid will show us that, knowing the right visuals or DAX to build out a high level scorecard report can be challenging. Learn about some great custom visuals in conjunction with DAX calculations to build out a quality scorecard template to use in your business. Reid Havens is the Founder & CEO of Havens Consulting Inc.
8/2 Webinar: See how PowerApps and PowerBI can provide school teachers the apps with reports they need by Daniel Christian
Join Charles Sterling and Daniel Christian as Daniel covers how PowerApps and PowerBI can provide school teachers the apps with reports. Education should be the #1 priority and school teachers should be provided all the tools they need. PowerApps, Flow and Power BI can be part of those tools. In this webinar Daniel Christian, Microsoft MVP will demonstrate how his educational app and report can help school teachers monitor the performance of their students.
University of Washington Data Visualization Course special lecture/industry showcase
I must admit i was honored to have been asked to host the last semester of the Data Visualization Course for the University of Washington. In addition to meeting some really cool people I will be the first to admit I am probably learning more from the experience than the students are in preparing for the lectures! (For instance i now know a lot about multi variate charting, how memory encoding impacts data visualization, when the first “choose your chart” flow chart was created etc etc etc).
7/19/18 Webinar: Next Generation Location and Data Analysis using Mapbox and Power BI
Join me as I connect with Sam Gehret and walk through how Mapbox and Power BI can use location data to tell your story using next generation maps. If you are not familiar with Mapbox, it is the location data platform for mobile and web applications. They provide building blocks to add location features like maps, search, and navigation into any experience you create. Sam Gehret is a Solutions Engineer for BI and Data Viz at Mapbox.
Salmon fishing Washington with some of the Power BI MVPs
Salmon fishing Washington with some of the Power BI MVPs In a couple of days a a bunch of the Power BI MVPs are in town for the Microsoft Business Applications Summit. While here i offered to take some of them (Mike Carlo, Seth Bauer, and Phil Seamark) out Salmon fishing and a couple of weeks ago Phil asked me how will be fishing.
7/12 Webinar: Text Analysis in Power BI with Cognitive services with Leila Etaati
Leila is back with me and in this webinar we are going to do a preview of her Microsoft Business Applications Summit session: Data that we collected always is not about numbers and structured data. In any organization, there is a need to analyze the text data such as customer comments, extract the primary purpose of a call from its scripts, detect the language of customer feedback and translate it and so forth.
6/18 Webinar: My Power BI report is slow: what should I do? by Marco Russo
This week have one of our crowd favorites and Rock star MVPs, Marco Russo who has volunteered to cover the topic: My Power BI report is slow: what should I do? Abstract: You created a wonderful Power BI report, but when you open it you wait too much time. Changing a slicer selection is also slow. Where should you start analyzing the problem? What can you do to optimize performance? This session will guide you in analyzing the possible reasons for a slow Power BI report.
June 14 Webinar: Inside the Universal Audit App: See what PowerApps and Flow are capable of by Paul Culmsee
This week have another Australian join me to cover off one of my favorite topics….using PowerApps and Flow to deliver applications that traditionally require a development and devops team! This popular app in the PowerApps showcase has resulted in 3-5 requests a week for this app. As a result it has been deployed all around the world. In this session Paul will show how it was conceived, how we leveraged PowerApps and Flow to their full potential and what customization have been done for clients.
Various Power BI, PowerApps and Flow Conferences and Events around the world.
Various Power BI, PowerApps and Flow Conferences and Events around the world. Various Power BI, PowerApps and Flow Conferences and Events around the world.
6/7 Webinar on Building Accessible Power BI Reports by Meagan Longoria
I have been lucky enough to co-present with Meagan a couple of times last month (on Design and Administration); so when she mentioned the two topics that really excites her: Reporting and Accessibility, just like Reese’s peanut butter cups we had the perfect marriage for this weeks Power BI Webinar topic: Accessibility is catering for your whole audience, including those with disabilities. According to the US Census Bureau, 19 percent of the of the population had a disability in 2010.
5/29 Webinar: Building Spectacular Power BI Dashboards with Zebra BI visuals
We will present advanced data visualization methods for building insightful Power BI dashboards. This lecture will demonstrate how to implement popular datavis techniques like the small multiples and the IBCS® semantic notation by using the Zebra BI custom visuals. We’ll also take on the challenge of presenting the P&L statements in Power BI.
5/17 Webinar: A look at the Common Data Service for Apps, Common Data Service for Analytics and Power BI Insights Apps
On March 21st the Business Applications Group announced a couple of new technologies: Common Data Service for Apps, Common Data Service for Analytics and Power BI Insights Apps. In this demo heavy webinar Microsoft program managers, Charles Sterling and Matthew Roche, will take a tour of the Common Data Service for Apps, Common Data Service for Analytics and Power BI Insights Apps.
5/24 Webinar: Time intelligence for retail and wholesale industries with Power BI by Matt Allington
In this session Power BI MVP and noted book author Matt Allington will be joining from down under to deliver a Power Bi Webinar, focusing on how time intelligence can be used for analysis in these industries with Excel and Power BI. Matt Allington is a BI Professional with over 30 years’ experience in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry.
Email and publish Calendar in Outlook now gone…and how to get them back
Please note I am not on the Outlook team…I just use their product A LOT. In the last Office update I noticed both Publish Calendar and Email Calendar functionality were missing from my and all the other Microsoft employees Outlook….Interestingly all the docs AND product UI references this functionality as if it is remains. To get the email calendar back you must add a new Ribbon Group and add the email calendar command.
A Demo heavy look at the Common Data Service for Apps, Common Data Service for Analytics and Power BI Insights Apps
On March 21st the Business Applications Group announced a couple of new technologies: Common Data Service for Apps, Common Data Service for Analytics and Power BI Insights Apps. In this demo heavy webinar Charles Sterling and Matthew Roche will take a tour of these new and soon-to-be offerings.
4/19 Webinar: Understanding Model Driven App Templates
4/19 Webinar: Understanding Model Driven App Templates Understanding Model Driven App Templates Introducing Casey who is now working on providing high value templates for PowerApps. Casey will be demonstrating and breaking down the components of a Model Driven App Template. Learn how to take these templates, and customize them to solve your own business objectives. When 4/19/2018 10PST VIDEO Casey Burke
Dashboard in Day Afternoon Demo
The new Dashboard in a Day training will cut the On-premises Gateway section as this is typically done by administrators not the analysts who this training is designed and to reduce the duration of the training. This demo is designed to accompany the Dashboard in a day kick off Demo the afternoon demo will focus on strategies for keeping the report data current.
Dashboard in a day kick off Demo (Short Version)
We are dramatically updating the Dashboard in a day training. This blog post is to serve as a possible kick off demo flow for the instructors teaching this course. The “theme” of the demo is “Take Action from Insight” and should take 10-20 minutes. Using the walk Dashboard in a Day walk through directions create a Power BI Report and in import the dataset. To speed this up we have created a version of the sales data that starts with 6/1/207 with only 100K rows called Sales_Demo.xlsx.
Webinar 4/12: Getting Started with Model Driven Apps in PowerApps
Webinar 4/12: Getting Started with Model Driven Apps in PowerApps Getting Started with Model Driven Apps in PowerApps Work along with Adrian as he walks you through the basics of how to get started with Model Driven Apps.
4/11 Webinar: Load Testing Power BI Applications with Visual Studio Load Test
Load Testing SAS based service such as Power BI Premium capacity can be quite complex with three primary strategies: Load Testing Power BI has the added complexity in that it is a very secure platform and security information is sent on every request and this information must be inserted into the web test calls generating the traffic.
3/28/201 Webinar: Power BI Tricks, Tips and Tools from the owners of PowerBI.Tips Mike Carlo and Seth Bauer
Power Tricks, Tips and Tools from the owners of PowerBI.Tips In this very special webinar the owners of PowerBI.Tips and Power BI MVPs, Seth Bauer and Mike Carlo will share with you their huge grab bag of Power Tricks, Tips and Tools they have published to http://PowerBI.Tips over the last 18 months. Demo’s to include their theme generator, adding data types within the query editor and their latest offering Power BI layouts (and a tour of their latest layout “Cool Blue”).
Power BI Tricks, Tips and Tools from the owners of PowerBI.Tips Mike Carlo and Seth Bauer
Power BI Tricks, Tips and Tools from the owners of PowerBI.Tips Power Tricks, Tips and Tools from the owners of PowerBI.Tips In this very special webinar the owners of PowerBI.Tips and Power BI MVPs, Seth Baur and Mike Carlo will share with you their huge grab bag of Power Tricks, Tips and Tools they have published to http://PowerBI.Tips over the last 18 months.
March 22nd Webinar Enhance Power BI Visualization with R by Leila Etaati
Now that Leila is finished with own her conference http://difinity.co.nz/ we get her to walk through two of her favorite topics: R Script and Power BI specifically: Power BI visualization is a holistic visualization tool. You can draw most of the popular charts with it. However, there is always some needs for specific charts that may not be available in Power BI standard visualizations of the marketplace. There is a possibility to extend the visualization capabilities using R language.
Power BI Community Super Users…aka the PowerBI.Com Super Hero’s
We have 15 Super users on the Community.PowerBi.com site and i wanted to thank these amazing individuals for their tireless efforts! MVP, Community Super User Director at Fusion Alliance and the Cloud Practice Manager. Greg is an active member in the Columbus IT community, founded the Columbus Azure ML, Power BI User Group (CAMLPUG) and has over I ran to Parv at the Vancouver Power BI user group and the second he introduced himself I knew two things 2.
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