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✨ New Blog Alert! ✨ Struggling to keep your Microsoft Fabric environment organized? 🤔 Naming conventions are the key! In my latest blog, I dive into how structured naming conventions can bring clarity and consistency to your Fabric items! 📖 Read it here: data-marc.com/2025/02/13/s...

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💡 Behind the Scenes: How I Automated My Fabric Workshop 💻 In my latest blog, I share how I used PowerShell and Fabric REST APIs to: ✅ Bulk create Fabric workspaces ✅ Assign capacities and permissions ✅ Automate cleanup after the workshop data-marc.com/2025/02/11/b... #MicrosoftFabric #PowerShell

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Well, that's a way to start your Monday!🙃 I've found a case in which Copilot is better than the regular feature! I was looking for a specific email in my flooded Outlook. I asked copilot to find the mail and specifically about parking at that certain appointment. AND IT WORKED LIKE A CHARM 😲

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Fantastically insightful session with fancy @jaypowerbi.bsky.social and @marclelijveld.bsky.social: A Data Analyst’s Guide to Microsoft Fabric. Power BI, Dataflows, Lakehouse, Copilot, and more—packed with practical knowledge!💚 #FabricFebruary #MicrosoftFabric

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Want to chat with your data and get instant answers? In this blog I'm comparing the #PowerBI Q&A Visual, #Copilot and Fabric #AISkills in the #MicrosoftFabric ecosystem, all based on the same simple dataset to compare answers and customizability! 🙌 data-marc.com/2025/01/23/a...

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Up next tonight are Ian Smith and Grijs Dekkers talking about Fabric architecture. Well, Grijs is here in spirit.

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Jordy Sels and Maria Lysenko are preparing to present the first session this evening. Hosted by Sopra Steria.

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How did you implement #security in your data estate? Are you sure it is secured end-to-end? Frequently, I come across half-baked security implementations where the front door is locked, but the back door is open. data-marc.com/2024/12/11/y... #MicrosoftPurview #MicrosoftFabric

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It is already a few days ago, the last conference of this year for me! This time a precon with my partner in crime @jaypowerbi.bsky.social. We deep dived in #PowerBI Visual Calculations! Also, delivered a regular session on “Changing the way how we interact with data” #MicrosoftFabric #AISkills

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That’s it! Boarding and flying back home ✈️ After an amazing week at #MSIgnite in Chicago, I added a few more days there, and four more days in New York together with the lady! We had a great time! Now time for a nap 😴

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Do I see you in Oslo in February? So much looking forward to this one! Secure your tickets now!!

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You've probably been pronouncing this cheese wrong your whole life... find out today on #FindingDataFriends with @marclelijveld.bsky.social! Thanks for joining us on the pod! www.youtube.com/channel/UCyl...

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Day 2 at #MSIgnite! More #MicrosoftFabric, #PowerBI #Purview and of course #CoPilot!

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It’s 6.37 in the morning, and MVPs are lining up for priority front row seating at the #MsIgnite keynote 😂 #Mvpbuzz @erwindekreuk.bsky.social

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Take off! 🛫 Boarded my flight to Chicago for #MSIgnite! Looking forward to a week full of new announcements and networking with like-minded folks! Let’s catch-up! Lets talk data! 📊 See you in Chicago!

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⬆️ Trying to import items to you #MicrosoftFabric workspace but not getting the option you're looking for or running into errors? ❌ There may be a caveat in there, which prevents you from uploading notebooks for example! Check my latest blog! data-marc.com/2024/11/12/i...

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Wondering how to manage breaking changes in your #PowerBI semantic models? Ensure all users are informed and minimize disruption. Explore various options for this process in my latest blog: data-marc.com/2024/10/17/f...

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Want to sync two slicers in #PowerBI?! Have you changed relationships to bi-directional? You may have ended up with an ambiguous data model, over filtering and presenting an incomplete view in your report as a result! Read my latest blog to find out more! data-marc.com/2024/09/17/s...

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Always great to catch up with likeminded people at conferences! #powerbinextstep @jamesdales @jaypowerbi.bsky.social

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How many times have you heard "copilot" in the past 8 hours? Probably a lot, and so do I! In everyday conversations with customers and colleagues it's mentioned at least every 10 sentences. I decided to write down my take on copilot in a blog! data-marc.com/2024/04/03/c...

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In just over an hour, Nimrod Shalit and I will present our session “Leveraging CI/CD Capabilities in Microsoft Fabric” at #FabCon Join our session in Boulevard Ballroom 162!

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The busy month has started! Coming weeks jumping from one hotel to another. Packed suitcases 🧳last night for 3 weeks USA 🇺🇸 and all sorts of weather to be expected. But first three days @PBIG_NL before the trip to the USA starts!

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It has been months if not over a year since I wrote that much DAX as I’ve done in the past week 😅 and there is only one to blame here! Looking at you @jaypowerbi.bsky.social 😂 But well, it’s a nice learning exercise and deep dive in new features! Soon to be explained during a precon to many!

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🚀 You might have already spotted the February release of Power BI Desktop? Where you had to write some complex DAX before, now your life becomes much easier writing the calculation directly within the visuals! Read more in my blog! data-marc.com/2024/02/20/e...

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Have you ever worked with #PowerBI Datamarts and tried to refresh them programmatically? A community member asked me if I knew how to do this during #FabricFebruary last week in Oslo. I never explored this aspect of Datamarts, so I went for it! data-marc.com/2024/02/08/c...

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On my way to Oslo for @fabricfebruary.com 😃 just boarded the plane! Looking forward to speak about overcoming the Fear of Fabric - when coming from a Power BI world 😃

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Attention all architects! If you're considering disabling #MSFabric for your organization, there's a "gotcha" you should know about before flipping the switch. Check my latest blog to learn more! #architecture #ITstrategy #monitoring data-marc.com/2023/12/13/u...

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Boost your business by increasing business understanding? I've put my thought together in a blog on how #MSFabric can help you to speed up the process to transform data to customer insights based on Dynamics 365 and ERP in minutes! data-marc.com/2023/12/01/t...

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What challenges did you come across when you wanted to enable #MSFabric? 🖇️No fit enterprise architecture? ❗Risk for quality of data? 🎮Lack of controls? ... I've listed down some challenges that I encountered over the past months and shared my thoughts with it. data-marc.com/2023/11/21/d...

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It's a wrap! After an amazing week in Seattle attending #msignite and presenting at #passdatasummit, it's time to head back home! Proud to have represented Macaw here and humbled to be featured partner voor #MsFabric which is now General Available!

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Exciting days! Attending #MSIgnite in person in Seattle! And not only Ignite, but also #PASSDataSummit, what a coincidence that both conferences happen in the same city in the same week and I got the honor to be a speaker at this large conference! 🙏🏻

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Boarding my flight to Seattle for #passdatasummit and #msignite 🙌 Getting ready for the latest and greatest announcements 🙌 and engaging with the awesome data community!

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What do you do on a rainy Sunday? 🌧️ Exactly, you finish your long overdue Lego Lakehouse! The house is complete, only some more trees and nature pieces to build. Something for later this week 🙃

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It took some time, but it's here! This year's MVP Award year disc and the 5-year disc! 🙌 Honored, happy and proud to be part of this exceptional group for 5+ years already! 🙏🏻 Massive thank you to every individual and my employer Macaw that has been, and keeps supporting me in this journey!

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Have you ever found yourself stuck with a XMLA-modified Power BI dataset which you could no longer download back to Power BI Desktop? In this blog I describe how you can recover your dataset from the #PowerBI Service in a step-by-step guide using #Git! data-marc.com/2023/10/30/r...

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Back home after a fantastic @datamindsbe! Had a blast! Thanks again to all the organizers for putting such a wonderful event together again 🙌 And of course thanks to all who attended my session on Expert Data Modeling in #PowerBI

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Have you heard about #DirectLake in #Fabric? The new connectivity mode that promises Import performance with Direct query freshness! Let me introduce you to data temperature to explore what is happening under the covers! Read it in my new blog! data-marc.com/2023/09/28/u...

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On my way back home after another fantastic Power BI Next Step! I had a blast! Thanks to all who attended, all the sponsors and above all Just Blindbæk and Ásgeir Gunnarsson for organizing!

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First up with the lightning talks at #PowerBI usergroup Denmark is Linda Torrång quoting that only Microsoft people, #mvpbuzz and wannabe MVPs talk about #Fabric 😂

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Omw to Copenhagen for Power BI Next Step! 20 minutes from the office to the gate, almost a new record! 😅

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Know how it feels to have a messed up sleep rhythm? Well... Go to a few conferences in a row with joyful evenings till late 😂 you'll figure the days after that you don't get anything done in the morning - and are super active in the evenings 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Back home from an amazing #SqlKonferenz! German traffic was nice to me, with a minor delay made it home safe! Thanks to the organizers for everything! I had a blast🙌

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