Ásgeir Gunnarsson
I'm a Data Platform MVP and a Chief Consultant with Datheos in Iceland. I work with Business Intelligence solutions spanning the whole of the MS BI stack. I have been working in BI since 2007.
SQLBits 2022
Managing Power BI workspaces
This session will help you find the best strategy for managing your Power BI workspaces. Should you go for as much automation as possible or do careful manual process? Should you have few people controlling everything or should everyone do as they want? All this and more you will find in this session.
Workspaces allow Power BI users to collect together datasets, reports, dashboards, dataflows and other Power BI objects and control access. As such the workspace is a central component in any Power BI deployment strategy. What is the best way to manage workspaces? The answer to that question (like so many others) is that it depends. In this session we will cover the most common ways to manage Power BI workspaces and try to uncover what method works best for different scenarios. We will try to touch on the whole lifecycle of the workspace from creation until deletion.
We will cover scenarios ranging everyone can create workspaces and manage them to automated workspace creation via a workflow which are managed by administrators.
What we will cover:
• Different ways to create workspaces
o Manual
User can create workspaces
Only certain users/groups can create workspaces
o Automatic
Simple workflow without approval
Complex workflow with multiple approvals
• Managing workspaces
o Manual
User manages their own workspaces
Admins manage all workspaces
Hybrid of the above
o (Semi) Automatic
Using APIs to manage certain aspect of workspaces
such as monitoring and deletion
• How workspace creation and management fits into the most
common content Lifecycle Management methods for Power
BI
The audience will take away knowledge of different methods to manage workspaces and ideas on how to automate some aspects of it.
Feedback Link - https://sqlb.it/?7051
We will cover scenarios ranging everyone can create workspaces and manage them to automated workspace creation via a workflow which are managed by administrators.
What we will cover:
• Different ways to create workspaces
o Manual
User can create workspaces
Only certain users/groups can create workspaces
o Automatic
Simple workflow without approval
Complex workflow with multiple approvals
• Managing workspaces
o Manual
User manages their own workspaces
Admins manage all workspaces
Hybrid of the above
o (Semi) Automatic
Using APIs to manage certain aspect of workspaces
such as monitoring and deletion
• How workspace creation and management fits into the most
common content Lifecycle Management methods for Power
BI
The audience will take away knowledge of different methods to manage workspaces and ideas on how to automate some aspects of it.
Feedback Link - https://sqlb.it/?7051