Power BI guides
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- Entra ID groups and group-based licensing
Group types in Entra ID, dynamic groups, and using groups to assign licences automatically.
- Microsoft 365 Business Premium deep dive
What Microsoft 365 Business Premium actually delivers — and why it's the right answer for most SMBs.
- Microsoft 365 capacity planning
Forecasting and managing capacity across Microsoft 365 — storage, Fabric capacities, licensing, and growth patterns.
- Microsoft 365 cost optimisation
Reducing Microsoft 365 spend without breaking outcomes — licence right-sizing, reclamation, and SKU optimisation.
- Microsoft 365 E3 vs E5 — what's worth the upgrade
A practical comparison of Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 plans — what E5 adds, where the value sits, and step-up patterns.
- Microsoft 365 plans and pricing
Microsoft 365 plans and pricing, made navigable: Business Premium for SMB, E3 plus add-ons for enterprise, E5 when you'll use it — with every comparison.
- Microsoft 365 reporting via PowerShell
PowerShell patterns for extracting reporting data from Microsoft 365 — licensing, usage, security posture, mailbox stats.
- Microsoft Fabric explained
What Microsoft Fabric actually is beyond "Power BI Premium rebranded" — OneLake, the workloads, F-SKU licensing vs the old P-SKUs, and where Azure Synapse fits.
- Microsoft Purview Data Map
The Data Map is the data governance side of Purview — discovering, classifying, and cataloguing data across the enterprise.
- Microsoft Viva Goals and OKRs after retirement
Viva Goals is retired: what it did, what happened to the data, and how to run OKRs in Microsoft 365 now with Planner, Loop, Viva Engage, and Power Platform.
- Power BI content certification and endorsement
How endorsement and certification surface trusted content in Power BI and Fabric — and the operational programme behind it.
- Power BI dataflows and Fabric dataflows
How dataflows centralise data preparation across many Power BI semantic models and reports.
- Power BI deployment pipelines
How to manage Power BI content lifecycle with deployment pipelines — dev, test, production.
- Power BI paginated reports
Paginated reports cover the print-and-export scenarios that interactive Power BI reports don't — invoices, statements, fixed-layout reporting.
- Power BI Pro vs Premium Per User vs Fabric capacity
Choosing between Power BI licensing tiers — Pro, PPU, and Microsoft Fabric capacity for different scenarios.
- Power BI row-level and object-level security
How RLS and OLS restrict what users see in Power BI semantic models — the patterns and the pitfalls.
- Power BI semantic model design
How to design Power BI / Fabric semantic models for performance, usability, and reuse — star schemas, measures, and best practices.
- Power BI workspace design
How to structure Power BI workspaces for sharing, lifecycle, and governance at scale.
- Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and semantic models
How Power BI fits inside Microsoft Fabric — semantic models, Direct Lake, OneLake, and the unified data platform.
- Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE) Toolkit
Microsoft's free toolkit of apps and flows for governing Power Platform at scale.
- Power Platform licensing explained
The Power Platform licensing model — what's free, what's premium, and how to plan for it.
- Power Query primer
Power Query is the data import and transformation engine inside Excel and Power BI. Here's the model.
- SharePoint page design and web parts
Modern SharePoint pages are built from web parts. Here's the kit and how to compose a good page.
- What is Power BI?
What Power BI is: Desktop, the Service, semantic models, licensing from Free to Fabric, how the pieces fit, and starting without a report swamp.