Power BI

Admin in a Day –
Demo Script

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Contents
Demo – Establishing Roles and Licensing ..................................................................................................... 3
Demo – Collaboration and Sharing ............................................................................................................... 6
Demo – Usage Monitoring & Auditing ....................................................................................................... 14
Demo – Premium Capacity ......................................................................................................................... 18
Demo – Gateway ........................................................................................................................................ 23
Demo – Broadening the reach of Power BI ................................................................................................ 27
Demo – Automating Power BI Administration ........................................................................................... 31

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Demo – Establishing Roles and Licensing

How to figure out where the tenant is

located?
1. Login to https://portal.azure.com
2. Navigate to Azure Active Directory.
3. In Azure Active Directory panel
navigate to Properties.
• Point the location of the tenant.
• Location determines where Power
BI stores data.
• Once created, tenant cannot be
moved.
• Multi geo – location of capacity.
Data from workspace under
capacity is in capacities region.
Metadata stays in home region

How to assign members to roles in Azure

AD?
4. In Azure Active Directory panel
navigate to Roles and administrators.
5. Point to Global Administrator role - Has
access to everything. Can take over
resources.
6. Point to Power BI Administrator role -
Is a service administrator. Does not have
access to licensing, subscription, audit
logs.
7. Point the ability to add members to
these roles.

Here is a way to Assign Power BI

Administrator role using O365 admin
portal.

8. Login to https://app.powerbi.com .
9. From the top right corner select the
Settings gear -> Admin portal.
10. Select Users.
11. Select Go to O365 Admin Center.
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O365 Admin center opens in a new
tab/window.
12. From left panel, select Users -> Active
Users.
13. Select a User.
14. Select Manage roles and show the
ability to set Power BI Administrator role.

How to assign licenses to users?

15. From left panel, select Users -> Active

Users.
16. Select a User.
17. From the user panel, select Licenses
and Apps.
Talk about the ability to assign Power BI
license.
Must be Global Admin to assign licenses.
Free Licenses can also be assigned using
viral sign-up.
Licenses can also be assigned using
PowerShell.

How to purchase licenses?

18. Navigate away from Active Users.

19. From the left panel, select Billing ->
Licenses.

If you are Global or Billing Admin you will

be able to view the options to purchase
licenses. If you are not either of these
admins, then you will view a list of
purchased licenses.

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How to add guest users to Azure Active
Directory?

20. Log back into https://portal.azure.com

21. Navigate to Azure Active Directory ->
Users.
22. Select New guest user from the top
menu.
23. Talk about the ability to invite guest
users. Once invite is sent, guest users will
get an email and they can create their own
credentials.

How to manage guest users access to

Power BI?

24. Navigate back to

https://app.powerbi.com .
25. From the top right corner select the
Settings gear -> Admin portal.
26. Select Tenant settings.
27. Scroll to Export and sharing settings.
28. Expand Invite external users to your
organization. Talk about the ability to
enable/disable the capability and allow
entire organization or groups.

Another method to find tenant location.

29. From the top menu select Help ? ->

About Power BI.
30. In the dialog, notice Your data is
stored in displays the location of the
tenant.

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Demo – Collaboration and Sharing
How to set a Workspace to Premium
capacity?

1. Navigate back to
https://app.powerbi.com .
2. From the left panel navigate to a
workspace that is in Premium capacity.
Talk about the diamond sign indicating the
workspace is in premium capacity.
3. Navigate to Workspace settings and
Premium section. Talk about using
Dedicated Capacity slider to set workspace
to Premium capacity.

How to create Workspace and add

members?

4. Navigate to Create Workspace.

5. Expand Advanced section and talk
about the ability to add Contact List,
workspace onedrive, choose a Premium
capacity and develop a Template app.

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6. Navigate to Workspace Access for the
Workspace.
7. Talk through the process of adding
admins, members, viewers and
contributors.

How to share content as app?

8. Navigate to Publish app screen ->

Access page. Talk about the ability to
share app with entire organization,
members, AD groups.

Can I share content with users external to

organization?

9. Navigate to Publish app screen ->

Access page. Enter email address of user
outside the organization.
10. Update app.
11. Email is sent to the user outside the
organization to access the app.

If guest user is not added to Azure Active

Directory, this is the Ad-hoc way of
sharing content with external/guest users.

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I do not want users to share content with
users external to my organization. Can I
control this ?

12. Navigate to Admin Portal -> Tenant

Settings.
13. Under Export and sharing settings,
expand Invite external users to your
organization. Talk about the ability to
control if/which users can share content
with external organization.

How to control who can publish apps?

14. Navigate to Admin Portal -> Tenant

Settings.
15. Under Content pack and app settings,
expand Publish content packs and apps to
the entire organization. Talk about the
ability to control if/which users can create
apps.

How to control which users can Publish to

web?

16. Navigate to Admin Portal -> Tenant

Settings.
17. Under Export and sharing settings,
expand Publish to web. Talk about the
ability to control if/which users can share
content with external organization.

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What options do I have if I want to
integration Power BI with ArcGIS or Azure
Maps ?
18. Navigate to Admin Portal -> Tenant
Settings.
19. Under Integration Settings talk about
the options to enable ArcGIS and Azure
Maps.
Note: For ArcGIS, the feature must be
enabled in individual Power BI Desktop file
as well.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
bi/visuals/power-bi-visualization-
arcgis#managing-use-of-arcgis-maps-for-
power-bi-within-your-organization

Can users export data to excel or analyze

in excel or Export reports to Power Point?

20. Navigate to Admin Portal -> Tenant

Settings.
21. Under Export and sharing settings,
talk about the ability to control each of
these features.

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How to enable sensitivity labels in Power
BI?

22. Navigate to Admin Portal -> Tenant

Settings.
23. Expand Information Protection
section. Talk about the ability to enable
sensitivity label feature and the ability to
configure which users in the organization
can set sensitivity labels.
Following link has details -
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
bi/admin/service-security-enable-data-
sensitivity-labels#enable-data-sensitivity-
labels

We have sensitivity labels enabled. Now

how do we apply it to Reports,
Dashboards, Datasets… in Power BI?

24. Following link walks through the sets

to apply sensitivity labels.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
bi/admin/service-security-data-
protection-overview#how-sensitivity-
labels-work
25. Talk about the prerequisites,
restrictions and limitations.

Is sensitivity labels honored if user

exports data or analyzes in excel?

26. If you have a dataset with sensitivity

table set, you can demo this feature.
Following link has the details:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
bi/admin/service-security-sensitivity-label-
overview#sensitivity-labels-and-
protection-on-exported-data

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Is there a way for Power BI Admin to
monitor data protection metrics?

27. Data protection metrics is available

which can be used to monitor and track
sensitivity label usage and adoption in
their tenant.
Following link has the details:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
bi/admin/service-security-data-
protection-metrics-report

How do I configure privacy level for a

data source?

28. Open DIAD Final Report.pbix file.

29. Navigate to Data source settings
screen.
30. Right click on one of the data sources.
31. Select Edit Permissions. In this dialog
you have the option to set the Privacy
level.

Is there a way to enable/ignore privacy

levels for a pbix file?

32. Privacy levels is set in Power BI

Desktop. Open Power BI Desktop.
33. Navigate to File -> Options & Settings
-> Options.
34. In the Options dialog, select Privacy
under Current File. This screen has the
setting to either ignore privacy setting or
combine data based on the privacy
settings.

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Is there a way for dataset owners to
review Q&A questions and share
synonym?
35. Talk about the ability for dataset
owners to configure/tool Q&A.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
bi/natural-language/q-and-a-tooling-intro
36. In the Admin portal, there is an option
to enable this feature under Tenant
Settings -> Q&A settings.
Is there an option to enable Cortana ?
37. Enabling Cortana is done at the
dataset level. A dataset owner can do this
by navigating to Dataset -> Settings.
38. Expand Q&A section and enable the
feature.
39. Next step is to create Answer Pages.
Following link has details.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/windows/configuration/cortana-at-
work/cortana-at-work-powerbi

How can I manage the workspaces in the

tenant?
40. Navigate to Admin Portal ->
Workspaces. Here you can talk about the
ability to:
Refresh list of workspaces and details.
Export data about workspaces.
View workspace details.
Edit workspace access.
Delete workspace.

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41. Complete admin portal feature list is
available here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
bi/admin/service-admin-portal#tenant-
settings

Do I have any control over external tools

in Power BI Desktop?

42. Following link has details regarding

registering and disabling external tools.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
bi/create-reports/desktop-external-
tools#disabling-external-tools-using-the-
registry

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Demo – Usage Monitoring & Auditing
How can an admin get access Usage
metrics?

1. Navigate to Admin Portal -> Usage

metrics.
2. Talk about the usage report. It provides
an admin level usage metrics for the
tenant. E.g. Number of datasets, number
of users, number of groups, etc.

How to get access to a Dashboard/Report

usage metrics and personalize it?

3. Navigate to a Report.
4. Select Usage metrics from the top
menu.
5. Notice a usage metrics report for the
dashboard is created. Talk about the
report.
6. To personalize it (such as look at all
your reports and dashboards in the
workspace), select File -> Save As.
Notice this creates a new dataset and
converts the read-only report to a full-
featured Power BI report that you can
edit.
7. Navigate to the new report that is
created.
8. Expand the FILTERS section in the right
panel. Talk about the ability to remove the
default filter and view the usage report for
all the dashboards in the workspace.

Similarly, a dashboard usage filter can be

customized.

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What is the difference between activity
log and audit log?

9. Following link has the details. Please

review this:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
bi/admin/service-admin-auditing

How do I access Activity Logs?

10. You need to be a global admin or

Power BI Service admin.
11. You can access using ActivityEvents
REST API.
12. You can also access using Power BI
Management cmdlets.

How can I access Audit Logs?

13. Navigate to Admin Portal -> Audit logs

-> Go to O365 Admin Center.
14. You will be navigated to O365 Admin
portal. Note: You need to be O365 Admin
to access audit logs.
15. Walk through the Audit log search
screen – Ability to select Power BI specific
activities, Export results, search by user,
date etc.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
bi/service-admin-auditing

16. Open the provided Audit log and walk

the user through the columns. We have
created a Power BI report using this audit
log as the data source.

17. Open PowerBIAuditLog.pbix file

located in Assets folder.
18. Navigate to Power Query Editor.
19. Walk through the steps to connect and
transform the Audit log file.

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20. Close Power Query editor and
navigate back to the desktop.
21. Navigate to Data view and talk about
the columns that is transformed from
JSON format.

What activity is the most common?

22. In the Treemap visual notice

GenerateEmbedToken is the activity that
occurs most. This is a Power BI
Embeddded activity.
23. Select GenerateEmbedToken from
Treemap visual.
24. Notice two users are creating a lot of
embed codes. Something to be aware of.

When is the best time to schedule

refreshes?

25. From CreationDate slicer, filter to

4/15/2018.
26. From Activity slicer, select to
ViewDashboard and ViewReport.
27. Using focus mode on Usage by
CreationTime and Activity report, expand
the visual.
Notice that users are accessing the report
and dashboard between 11 am and 4 pm
and again later in the evening. So, it is best
to schedule refreshes before the activity
begins. Users will have the up to date data
to work with.

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What kind of license should be assigned
to 350 users whose behavior is like
DisneyUser1?

28. Select Back to Report, to navigate

back to the report.
29. Clear all the filters.
30. Select DisneyUser1 from the Usage by
User table.
31. Notice the user is using Power BI to
view data. For only viewing, free user
license is appropriate.

Data is leaked to the internet. How to

identify the issue?

Publish to Web is a feature where data

can be accessed without entering
credentials. So, let’s look for this activity.
32. From Activity slicer, select to
PublishToWebReport.
33. Notice there a few users who have
published to web. You can work with
these users to investigate further.

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Demo – Premium Capacity
How to access Capacity settings?

1. Navigate back to
https://app.powerbi.com .
2. From the top right corner select the
Settings gear -> Admin portal.
3. Select Capacity settings.
4. Talk about the available V-Cores.
5. Talk about Set up new capacity button
being enabled when a new capacity is
purchased. Once configured, this button is
grayed out.

How to update Capacity settings?

6. Talk about the usage information that

is available for the last 7 days.
7. Click on Settings under Actions.
8. This will allow you to rename or delete
a capacity. It will also indicate who the
service admins are, the SKU/size of the
capacity and what region the capacity is
in.

How to change Capacity size?

9. Talk about the ability to Change

capacity size. Power BI admins and Office
365 Global admins change Power BI
Premium capacity size by selecting Change
capacity size. Capacity admins who are
not a Power BI admin or Office 365 Global
admin will not have this option.
10. The Change capacity size screen lets
you upgrade or downgrade your capacity
size if you have the available resources.
Administrators are free to create, resize

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and delete nodes, so long as they have the
requisite number of v-cores.

Who are Capacity admins?

11. Capacity admins, along with Power

BI admins and Office 365 global
admins, can bulk assign workspaces
within the premium capacity
management section of the admin
portal. When you manage a capacity,
you will see a Workspaces section that
allows you to assign workspaces.

Can non-Capacity admins assign

Workspaces to Premium capacity?

12. Capacity admins can assign

additional Capacity admins for Power
BI Premium capacities. As well as
assign users that will have capacity
assignment permissions. Users that
have assignment permissions can
assign an app workspace to the
capacity if they are an admin of that
workspace. They can also assign their
personal My Workspace to the capacity.
Users with assignment permissions will
not have access to the admin portal.
How do I access Capacity usage metrics?

13. Navigate to Apps section.

14. Select Get Apps.
15. Under Apps, search for Power BI
Premium Capacity Metrics app.
16. Show how to install the app.

You have to capacity admin to get the app

to work.

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17. Navigate to Power BI Premium
Capacity Metrics dashboard.

Dashboard shows an aggregated summary

of all the capacities that you are an admin
of.

18. Click on any tile to open the more

detailed report.

19. When you open the Power BI Premium

metrics app you're presented with the
Capacity health center, which provides an
overview of the health of your Power BI
Premium capacity.

20. The Datasets tab, which allows you to

select a specific capacity or dataset to
explore for all the following pages in this
report.
21. Using the buttons on the top right you
can select Refreshes, Query Duration,
Datasets and Query Waits. For each of
these criteria we can figure out e.g. how
long refreshes are taking, what is average
refresh time, etc. This will help analyze if
there are bottlenecks.

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22. Refreshes shows successful refresh
count, refresh failure count, the average
duration and wait times of dataset
refreshes by hour. Long refresh wait times,
can be a sign that a capacity is becoming
busy. A refresh will wait when there are
not enough resources (memory or CPU)
available for it to start. These resources
may be consumed by other refreshes or
queries being run on the capacity.
Refreshes can be broken out by dataset
name and workspace name.

23. Dataset shows total datasets evicted

due to memory pressure by hour. The line
on the chart represents the average
memory consumption. Eviction is a normal
process to clean up unused dataset from
memory to make room for new datasets
which are actively being used. Unused
datasets will be evicted when new
datasets need to be queried or refreshed.

24. Query Durations and Query Waits

options help investigate slow queries and
how best to optimize queries.
25. Use following link to review various
metrics available.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
bi/service-admin-premium-monitor-
capacity.
26. Metrics is available for Paginated
Reports, Dataflows, etc. There is also links
to white papers. You can demo one of the
real-world scenarios.

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How do I manage Workloads by capacity?
27. Navigate to Admin Portal -> Capacity
settings.
28. Select a capacity. You will be
navigated to Management screen.
29. Expand Workloads under More
Options. You can configure workloads in
this section. Following link has details –
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-
us/blog/five-new-power-bi-premium-
capacity-settings-is-available-on-the-
portal-preloaded-with-default-values-
admin-can-review-and-override-the-
defaults-with-their-preference-to-better-
fence-their-capacity/

Is there a way to monitor capacities from

the Admin Portal (high level monitoring)?
30. Navigate to Admin Portal -> Capacity
settings.
31. Select a capacity.
32. Click on Health which will provide
metrics. Following link has details -
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
bi/service-admin-premium-monitor-portal

How do I enable Premium Gen 2?

33. Select a capacity. A section appears
titled Premium Generation 2 (preview)
34. Use the slider to enable the feature.

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Demo – Gateway
How to install On-premises gateway?

1. Following link walks through the

gateway installation process.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
bi/service-gateway-install

How do I add gateway to a cluster?

2. Following link walks through the

gateway installation process.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
bi/service-gateway-install#add-another-
gateway-to-create-a-cluster

How do I enable load balancing?

Assumption is you already have gateway installed.

3. Navigate back to
https://app.powerbi.com .
4. Navigate to Manage gateway screen.
5. Using Distribute requests across all
active gateways in this cluster checkbox,
load balancing is enabled.

Who can add data sources to a gateway

cluster?

6. Navigate to Gateway Administrators

screen. Gateway administrators are added
in this screen.

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Who can refresh data from data sources
configured on gateway?

7. Walk user through a data source set up.

8. Navigate to Users tab for that gateway.
Users added here will be able to refresh
data from the data source.

I am using an Analysis Services data

source for live connections, and the email
address we use to sign into Power BI does
not match with the UPN used in Analysis
Services. How to resolve this issue?

Users can be mapped to Analysis Services

using two methods:
• Manual user re-mapping.
• On-premises AD property lookup
to remap AAD UPNs to AD users.

Here is how to manually remap users.

9. In the gateway clusters page, navigate

to an Analysis Services data source.
10. Navigate to Users tab.
11. Select Map user names. Map user
names dialog opens.
12. You can add rules here to map users.
To create a mapping rule, enter a value for
Original name and New name and then
select Add.
13. You can use wildcards to set up rules.
14. You can move the rules prioritizing it.
15. You can also test the rules.

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16. For AD look up mapping, review
following link:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
bi/service-gateway-enterprise-manage-
ssas#ad-lookup-mapping

How do I access all gateway

configurations and logs?

17. Open On-premises Data Gateway.

18. Navigate to Diagnostics tab.
19. Select Export logs under Gateway
logs. This exports a zip file with the
gateway configuration properties and
service logs.

Above logs are good, but how do I log

queries and identify which of my queries
is slow?

20. Open On-premises Data Gateway.

21. Navigate to Diagnostics tab.
22. Enable Additional logging. This logs
queries that are sent from the gateway to
the data source and the query duration.
Note: It is recommended to Additional
logging is disabled once you have analyzed
the logs.

23. Once the logs are captured, open the DM.EnterpriseGateway Verbose: 0 : 2016-09-26T23:08:56.7940067Z
log file. DM.EnterpriseGateway baf40f21-2eb4-4af1-9c59-0950ef11ec4a
24. Search for the activity type you want 5f99f566-106d-c8ac-c864-c0808c41a606 MGEQ 21f96cc4-7496-
to analyze. There are 3 activity types: bfdd-748c-b4915cb4b70c B8DFCF12
• MGEQ – Queries executed over ADO.NET [DM.Pipeline.Common.TracingTelemetryService] Event:
• MGEO - Queries executed over OLEDB FireActivityCompletedSuccessfullyEvent (duration=5004)
• MGEM - Queries executed from Mashup
engine.

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25. Make a note of the second GUID as
this is the request id.
26. Continue to search for MGEQ (or
whatever activity type you are looking
for) until you find the Activity type entry
with the duration. You can verify the entry
has the same request id. Duration is in
milliseconds.

Troubleshooting On-Premises data

gateway:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
bi/service-gateway-onprem-tshoot#activities

Are there any other resources available

to monitor gateway performance?

27. Following link has details:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/data-
integration/gateway/service-gateway-
performance

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Demo – Broadening the reach of Power BI
How do I publish reports to the web?
Note: We talked about how the admin
can control this feature in an earlier
section.

28. Navigate back to

https://app.powerbi.com .
29. Navigate to a report you have edit
access.
30. Select Share->Embed report->Publish
to web (public).
31. Embed code dialog opens. Talk about
the fact that with this feature data is
available publicly. Create embed code.
32. Copy the link you can send in email.
33. Paste the link in another browser
window.
34. Talk about the ability to easily embed
this link in an email.
35. Talk about the ability to using Html
you can past into your blog or website
text.
How do I know which reports are
published to web and get the embed
code?

36. Navigate to Admin Portal -> Embed

Codes.
37. If you are a Power BI Admin you can
view all the embed codes created (by all
the users).
38. If you are not Power BI Admin, you
will view only embed codes created by
you.
39. In this screen you can delete embed
code or view it on the web.

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How do I embed reports to the
SharePoint online?

40. Navigate to a report.

41. From the top menu select the Share->
Embed report-> SharePoint online.
42. Copy the link and using Power BI web
part you can embed this report in
SharePoint online.
Note: For this feature, you need Power BI
Pro or Premium license.
How do I give access to users to the
embedded report on SharePoint online?

43. There are two ways to grant access.

Method 1: Add the user as a member of
the app workspace in Power BI Service.
Method 2: Alternatively, you can share a
dashboard with a tile from the report.

How do I create embedded capacity in

Azure portal?

Before following below steps, at least one

account in your AAD tenant must have
signed up for Power BI.

44. Sign into Azure Portal.

45. From the left panel select Create a
resource.
46. In the search box, enter Power BI
Embedded.
47. Select Power BI Embedded -> Create.
Walk through the process of creating the
resource. Talk about the fact that Power BI
Embedded is supported in multi-geo
(https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
bi/developer/embedded-multi-geo)

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How do I manage embedded capacities?

Managing embedded capacity is like

managing Premium.
48. Navigate to Admin Portal -> Capacity
settings in Power BI Service.
49. Select Power BI Embedded tab.
50. Talk about ability to Assign all
workspaces from the existing capacity to
the new capacity.
51. Talk about ability to delete or pause
the old capacity.

Are there any controls with respect to

Dataflow?

52. Navigate to Admin Portal -> Tenant

settings in Power BI Service.
53. Expand Dataflow settings and talk
about the ability to enable/disable
dataflow.

How do I create a dataflow?

54. Navigate to New -> Dataflow in Power

BI Service.
55. Select Add new entities.
56. If you have access to SQL server or any
other data source, select that. (or pre-
built an entity)
57. Select Transform data and perform a
few transformations.
58. Save the dataflow.

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How do I map dataflow entity to CDM?

59. Navigate to the dataflow you created.

60. From the menu, select Map to entity.
Talk about the ability to map.

How do I connect CDM folder to Power BI

as a dataflow?

61. Navigate to New -> Dataflow in Power

BI Service.
62. Select Create and attach.
63. Provide a Name and Path to CDM
folder in your organization’s ADLS Gen 2.
64. Select Create and attach. This
dataflow is marked with external icon.
65. Talk about the limitations.

Dataflows from CDM folders cannot be

edited
Permissions to read a dataflow created
from a CDM folder is managed by the
owner of the CDM folder, and not by
Power BI.
Only users who are authorized to both the
workspace in which the dataflow was
created and the CDM folder can access its
data from the Power BI Dataflows
connector
Creating dataflows from CDM folders is
only available in the new workspace
experience
Linked entities is not available for
dataflows created from CDM folders
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
bi/transform-model/service-dataflows-add-
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Demo – Automating Power BI Administration
How do install Power BI CMDLET and
connect to Power BI Service?

66. Run Windows PowerShell as

Administrator.
67. Using command:
Install-Module -Name MicrosoftPowerBIMgmt
to Install the module.
68. Enter command:
Connect-PowerBIServiceAccount to connect
to Power BI Service.

Can I access all the workspaces created in

the organization (not just me)?

Two scopes are supported by cmdlets that

interact with Power BI entities. Default
scope is Individual. This is used to access
entities that belong to the current user.

69. In the Windows PowerShell window

enter: Get-PowerBIWorkspace. This lists the
workspaces that you have access to.
70.
Note: This might take a while to execute,
depending on the number of artifacts.
I want a list of all the workspaces and the Login-PowerBI
list datasets, reports and dashboards in $workspaces = Get-PowerBIWorkspace -Scope Organization
$workspaces | Export-Csv "workspaces.csv" -NoTypeInformation
each of the workspace?
@("reports", "dashboards", "datasets") | foreach {
71. You need to be a Power BI Admin to $csvFile = $_ + ".csv"
execute this script, since you want a list of if(Test-Path $csvFile){ Remove-Item $csvFile }
}
all workspaces and artifacts. Execute the
script – List Content.ps1. foreach($workspace in $workspaces)
This script creates 4 csv files – {
workspace.csv, reports.csv, $reports = Get-PowerBIReport -WorkspaceId $workspace.id -Scope Organization;
dashboards.csv and datasets.csv. $reports | Add-Member -NotePropertyName workspaceId -NotePropertyValue
$workspace.id;
$reports | Export-Csv "reports.csv" -NoTypeInformation -Append;
NOTE: depending on the number of
workspaces and related artifacts, this $dashboards = Get-PowerBIDashboard -WorkspaceId $workspace.id -Scope
Organization;

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script may take a long duration to $dashboards | Add-Member -NotePropertyName workspaceId -NotePropertyValue
complete execution. $workspace.id;
$dashboards | Export-Csv "dashboards.csv" -NoTypeInformation -Append;

$datasets = Get-PowerBIDataset -WorkspaceId $workspace.id -Scope Organization;

$datasets | Add-Member -NotePropertyName workspaceId -NotePropertyValue
$workspace.id;
$datasets | Export-Csv "datasets.csv" -NoTypeInformation -Append;
}

I get requests to download Power BI ## Requires the Azure AD 2.0 cmdlets

Audit logs periodically. Can I script it? ## Install-Module -Name AzureAD

# Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

72. You need to be a O365 Admin to $UserCredential = Get-Credential

execute this script. Execute the script –
## Create the session to Exchange Online
Get-Audit-Log.ps1.
$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri
This script set the result size to maximum https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -
of 5000 rows. You can create a loop to get Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
all the records.
## Import the Exchange Online commands
Import-PSSession $Session
NOTE: you need AzureAD module for this
script. $csvFile = "c:\temp\auditlog.csv"
Search-UnifiedAuditLog -StartDate 1/1/2017 -EndDate 2/17/2018 -RecordType PowerBI
-ResultSize 5000 | Export-Csv $csvFile

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