Master Admin and Governance for Microsoft Fabric

Power BI Administrators have become Fabric Administrators from one day to another. Suddenly, there was Microsoft Fabric bringing a wealth of new features to the service, which have different requirements from an admin, governance and monitoring perspective. Now, we also incorporate data engineers, data scientists and many other roles into our ecosystem and internal community - there were we've worked with data analysts over the past years primarily.

In this table talk, four (5!) Microsoft Most Valuable professionals will discuss the admin and governance best practices combining your Power BI ecosystem with Microsoft Fabric platform solutions.

Topics that will be covered:
- Setting up domains in Fabric
- Workspace architecture
- Premium capacities versus Fabric capacities
- Capacity setup and monitoring
- New tenant configurations to consider and their impact
and much more! Your questions decide the direction of our discussion! Come and ask all your burning questions, whether you're an admin yourself or just curious the new world with Fabric and related controls.

PowerShell Hacks for Lazy Fabric/Power BI Admins

There's never a dull moment in the life of a Microsoft Fabric/Power BI Administrator. In order to protect our time and sanity, it's important to automate as many of our usual tasks and processes as possible. Additionally, since the top priority of the Power BI development team is the end user experience, there are many edge cases and "power user" type activities that cannot yet be accomplished using only Power BI Desktop and the Power BI web service. Fortunately, Microsoft has provided two priceless tools that allow us to automate and add missing functionality to Fabric and Power BI: The Fabric and Power BI REST APIs, and the MicrosoftPowerBIMgmt module for PowerShell. This presentation will demonstrate several techniques for harnessing these powerful tools to make your job as a Fabric/Power BI Administrator less time-consuming and more fun!

The Data Dojo: A Power BI Community of Practice

One of the best ways to improve data literacy and foster an active, passionate data culture within an organization is to establish a "Community of Practice" around the technologies the organization uses to process, store, analyze, and consume data.

In this session, we'll learn about "The Data Dojo: A Power BI Community of Practice," which was established at Des Moines University to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and experience among faculty and staff interested in analyzing the data generated by their teams and departments.

We'll also talk about the Data Dojo's egalitarian founding principles and unconventional structure, some of the topics we've covered at our workshops, what has gone right, what we could have done better, and what we're planning for the future.

And finally, we'll discuss how you can encourage data literacy and foster a vibrant data culture within your organization by establishing a Data Dojo of your own!

This is a non-technical session, focused almost exclusively on the human elements of fostering a healthy data culture within an organization.
Recommended time slot: 45-75 minutes, depending on whether a live Q&A session is included.

Automate Your Power BI and Fabric Backups with Fabric Archive Bot

Join James Bartlett for a session where he introduces Fabric Archive Bot, a free and open-source tool designed to automate backups of your Power BI and Fabric workspaces. This session will cover the key concepts behind Fabric Archive Bot, including REST APIs, JSON, and Service Principal Authentication. James will also demonstrate how to set up Fabric Archive Bot, run it manually, and schedule automatic backups using Windows Task Scheduler. By the end of this session, you'll have the knowledge to ensure that your Fabric items are securely backed up with minimal effort.

People who attend this session will:
- Understand the basics of how Fabric Archive Bot works, utilizing the Fabric REST APIs to enumerate and backup items from Fabric workspaces.
- See how using Service Principal Authentication (instead of User Principal Authentication) allows for 100% unattended automation of processes that would otherwise require a user to login.
- Learn how to set up and configure Fabric Archive Bot using the Azure Portal, PowerShell, and Windows Task Scheduler.

Prerequisites:
- Intermediate knowledge of the Fabric cloud service.
- Tenant administrator access to Fabric.
- Familiarity with Entra ID App Registrations (Service Principals) and Security Groups in the Azure Portal.
- A Windows machine with PowerShell version 7+ and Windows Task Scheduler.