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Not a member? Sign up here to access all content. By delving into this free 80 page chapter, you’ll gain insights into connecting Power BI Desktop with various databases and data warehouses. Not only that, but you’ll also learn that Power BI Desktop conveniently offers pre-built connections to most databases commonly found in corporate settings.… READ MORE
We have been waiting for this for soooo long! I’m very happy to announce the availability of the Power BI report web part for SharePoint Online! The new web part Microsoft is releasing today enables SharePoint authors to embed Power BI reports directly in SharePoint Online pages with no code required! In the sample below I… READ MORE
Grow and enhance your skills with the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Community. Joining the ESPC Community, gives you access to the online resource centre at sharepointeurope.com, providing the best, free content on SharePoint, Azure and Office 365. Topics covered include Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, SharePoint Framework, Office 365 Groups, OneDrive, PowerApps & Flow, Security,… READ MORE
This post is the second in a series exploring Power BI and complex data types in SharePoint. The first post explores working with multi-value columns. In this one, we’ll explore some of the nuances of working with person fields Person fields in SharePoint are just a special case of the lookup field, and the Power BI SharePoint… READ MORE
Power BI has direct support for reporting on SharePoint lists and documents whether SharePoint is on-premises or in the cloud. Getting at your data is relatively straightforward if you know the URL, but as I’ve written about before, SharePoint data can be idiosyncratic. Text and number fields work right away, but more complex data types… READ MORE
We won the European SharePoint Conference 2017 Hackathon with a fresh idea of using Office 365 and Machine Learning to identify groups of people in Office 365 that can collaborate through Yammer, SharePoint and the Office 365 stack. The idea, Office 365 as a better collaboration space The initial idea came from @Joon Du Rant and we… READ MORE
Interested in attending ESPC16 but need to convince your boss? Here is a short template which may be of some help to convince your boss.
I’ve been using my solution to extract tables from Powerpoint a lot recently. However, I’ve come across some situations where what looks like a table is actually an embedded Excel worksheet. This can be quite useful in Powerpoint as it provides the ability to create subtotals and apply other formulae. You can add these sort of… READ MORE
In this article I’ll describe built-in archiving in SharePoint / Office 365. I’ll cover topics like on how you can use Site / Library based retention to fulfil company or legal requirements. Background It’s often the case that we’re creating a SharePoint site for a project. Typically, they last for a specific amount of time,… READ MORE
Franck Cornu, Microsoft MVP, provides an overview of the Taxonomy navigation components for SharePoint Online using Office UI Fabric and JSOM
