Managing Power BI... as an Azure B2B Guest
If you've spent any time across the Microsoft suite of tools, you'll know firsthand the frustration of finding "that setting" you need to enable to access to "that one thing" to perform "that one task". It can feel as if there are a million and one ways to do the same thing; until, of course, you need to actually enable something. I think this is what keeps BI professionals in business. I recently re-discovered this when working with a client to set up Power BI access as an external user. Microsoft has released some sweet new features the past 1-2 years allowing external users to connect to and manage content in Power BI. The company I work for has traditionally asked clients to create new developer accounts on their own tenant, but this has its own limitations, including a larger lift for the client to set up, higher monthly expenses for the client, the need to create multiple profiles in web browser for each client, and more. To make things ...