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Join us for our dynamic State and Local Government Power BI Community calls! Held regularly, these sessions are your gateway to innovation and knowledge. Check out the schedule below for our upcoming and past calls.
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Cyrus Christian and Danni Olson
Microsoft
Purview Data Protection and Security for Power BI for GCC(5/29/25)
Power BI plays a crucial role in delivering data insights throughout an organization. However, as data becomes more accessible for decision-making, the risk of accidental oversharing or misuse of business-critical information increases. Microsoft offers Data protection capabilities in Power BI, enabling customers to empower every user while better protecting their data, regardless of how or…
Power BI Admin Monitoring Deep Dive in GCC (3/27/25)
This Community Call on Power BI Admin monitoring and logging will cover an introduction to the topic, an overview of key concepts, and a detailed look at the features and tools available for monitoring and logging in Power BI. It will also include best practices, real-world use cases, and a Q&A session to address attendees’…
Paginated Reports.. When to use and how to create (2/20/25)
Paginated Reports.. When to use and how to create February 20, 2025 — 11 am pst/2 pm estPresented by Microsoft Description: This session will focus on the creation of Paginated reports. Paginated reports are intended for printing or sharing. They are referred to as paginated because they are formatted to fit well on a page. These reports display all data…
Streamline Your Data Workflows: Power BI Meets OneDrive for Business (1/30/25)
Streamline Your Data Workflows: Power BI Meets OneDrive for Business January 30, 2025 — Presented by Microsoft – Danni Olson Description: Join us for an in-depth exploration of how Power BI integrates with OneDrive for Business to revolutionize your data collaboration and management. In this session, you’ll learn how to seamlessly connect and synchronize your data files,…
March 23rd – Demystify and Explain Power BI Gateways
During this GCC Community Call we reviewed using Power BI Gateways to keep your data up-to-date with scheduled refreshes and/or DirectQuery/Live Connection. We demonstrated how to install and set-up a Power BI Gateway, reviewing the features, best practices, monitoring and Government Community Cloud (GCC) differences. Link to Survey for this Event: https://forms.office.com/r/Ztx6jdnjZM
Power BI – All things Embedded
Looking to know all the options for embedding content? Knowing the differences between embedding Power BI content can be somewhat complex and nuanced. In this session we reviewed the following options including Power BI Publish to Web Embedded, Teams/SharePoint Embedded, Secure Embedded, Power Pages Embedded and Custom Embedded. We will also reveal what options are…
Live Power BI Examples – Feb 23rd Government Community Call
Session – “Think Bold with Business Intelligence” with dannio@microsoft.com This 30 min presentation is for business/agency resources to get an overview of how other government agencies within the USA are using Power BI We presented live examples from Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education, Department of Transportation, Law Enforcement, etc Audience: Business…
Preview Feature Power BI Dataset Scale Out
Power BI Dataset Scale-Out, a dataset feature enabling enterprise customers to support large-scale Power BI solutions without any additional administrative overhead or infrastructure complexity. The idea is to let Power BI scale the number of dataset replicas and load-balance client connections dynamically to meet query processing demands at critical times up to the maximum available…
Power BI in Teams
In this community call led by Rachel Rood, she demonstrates how to make better data-driven decisions by bringing your data into the flow of your Team’s collaboration. You will be able to learn about the many features and capabilities that the Power BI app brings into Microsoft Teams and how quickly you can get up…
Power BI in GCC Year in Review 2022
As this year comes to an end, we reviewed new features of Power BI released throughout 2022 in this community call. Some highlights for Power BI Desktop include conditional formatting for data labels, error bars, and a new format pane. Examples of some highlights in Power BI Service include metrics, hybrid tables, and guest user…
Story Telling with PowerBI
May 12th, 2022 – 10 AM PDT/1 PM EDT During this 50 mins Power BI GCC recorded session Danni Olson from Microsoft reviewed resources you can use for ‘Story Telling” with Data. Covering topics such as the art behind visualizations, the implications behind choosing the right charts, the impact of color, shape, size, and finally…
Power BI – Innovators in Accessibility
As we think about how to include more individuals in our reporting development and viewing audiences, the topic of accessibility is a frequent requirement for our government customers who are required to develop reports that can accommodate a diverse audience. This video presents some best practices and roadmap of future accessibility features in the Power…
Power BI Adoption Strategies
Community Call 4/14/2022 Link to Power BI Deck for this session https://powergi.blog/2022/04/13/power-bi-file-community-call-april-14-2022/Link to Survey for this Session: https://forms.office.com/r/9cJnWg75DiLink to Session Recording: Directly from our survey results: “Training on designing user adoption strategies to include more than just the technical components. This includes user engagement strategies for the many levels of user types in an organization,…
On the Road Again!
As COVID restrictions are being lifted throughout the country, we are beginning to travel once again. Both Cyrus and Danni will be at a team offsite next week so our regularly scheduled Community Call will be cancelled for March 31st. We will be back in the month of April, and you can add a Calander…
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