In this post you can find materials and useful information on Power BI Dashboard in a Day training which will be provided August 23 in Microsoft Technology Center New York.
Please download archive with instructions, source files and Power BI reports.
Prerequisites and setup steps
- Internet connectivity: You must be connected to the internet
- At minimum, a computer with 2-cores and 4GB RAM running one of the following version of Windows: Windows 7, Windows 8, (64-bit preferred), Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 or Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012/R2
- Microsoft Power BI Desktop requires Internet Explorer 9 or greater
- Verify if you have 32bit or 64bit operating system to decide if you need to install the 32bit or 64bit applications.
- Search for computer on your PC, right click properties for your compute
- You will be able to identify if your operating system is 64 or 32 bit based on “system type” as shown below
- Download and install Power BI Desktop: Download and install Microsoft Power BI Desktop from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=45331.
- Signup for Power BI: Go to http://aka.ms/pbidiadtraining and sign up for Power BI with a business email address.
- If you have an existing account, please go to http://app.powerbi.com and Sign in using your Power BI account.
Agenda
Morning
- 08:30 AM – 09:00 AM – Introduction to Power BI
- 09:00 AM – 11:00 AM – Power BI Desktop – Content
- 11:15 AM – 11:30 AM – Power BI Service and overview
- 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM – Power BI service I – Content
- 12:30 PM – 01:00 PM – Lunch
Afternoon
- 01:00 PM – 01:15 PM – Power BI Service II and overview
- 01:15 PM – 02:15 PM – Power BI Service II – Content
- 02:15 PM – 04:30 PM – Bring your own data and build dashboards (optional)
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