Tips & Tricks
How to Add a Card to Display the Total Number of Computers in a Power BI Table
Hi Everyone! In this blog post I show you how to add a card in order to display the total number of computers in a Power BI table. It doesn’t matter if you are designing a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) report or a Power BI report, end-users don’t have the time...
Visual Studio 2017 – SSRS Project Incompatible – The Application Is Not Installed Error in SSDT
While working on an Enhansoft Reporting project in Visual Studio 2017, I received an error stating that this project was incompatible. What was confusing to me was that I had opened this project up in the past with no problem, but not today! Compounding the confusion,...
Power BI Drillthroughs – How Do They Work?
Why am I talking about Power BI Desktop drillthroughs? Don’t you just click on an item and it drills through to the next page? Isn’t it just like drilling through items in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports? The answer is an emphatic, “No, they are not like...
How to Delete Reports and Folders From PBRS
I was updating my blogs on moving Power BI Report Server to HTTPS. Really, they were originally for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) but I digress. In that set there was this one on How to Delete Reports and Folders From PBRS. So, I decided to update them it to...
How to Add the Last Refreshed Date and Time to a Power BI Report
Have you ever wondered, “How old is the data within this report?” Once you load data within a PBIX file and report on it, if you never refresh the results (data), Power BI continues to use the existing data. How, then, do you show when the results were last refreshed?...
How to Display Version Number Info on Power BI Reports
Hi Everyone! Originally, I wanted to use the Power BI parameters feature to display report version numbers in all of my reports. In the end, however, I found another easy way to show this information. Here’s what I did: I created a table and within one of the columns...
How to Upload a PBIX to Report Server?
This seems like a simple task and it is but only if you do it a lot, like I do. I work with mostly Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) and Intune Administrators. SQL and Report Server is a foreign world to most of them. All they want is to make available a Power BI...
How to Upload a PBIX to Report Server?
This seems like a simple task and it is but only if you do it a lot, like I do. I work with mostly Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) and Intune Administrators. SQL and Report Server is a foreign world to most of them. All they want is to make available a Power BI...
How to Clean Up Custom Inventory
The other day, a friend, emailed me to ask, if I had an article that show you how to clean up Custom Inventory within SCCM. I said that I didn’t but I would try to write an article on How to Clean Up Custom Inventory over the weekend. As a Microsoft Configuration...
What does the acronym you use, say about you?
Lawful Good Neutral Good Chaotic Good MEMCM ConfigMan or CfgMan or CfgMgr SMS Lawful Neutral True Neutral Chaotic Neutral MCM ConfigMgr CM Lawful Evil Neutral Evil Chaotic Evil MECM SCCM SCCMCB What does the acronym you use, say about you? The other day I posted a...