Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

Tech Tip Thursday: integrating Power BI and OneDrive for Business

Microsoft's own Guy in a Cube has been providing tips and tricks for Power BI and Business Intelligence on his YouTube channel since 2014. Every Thursday we highlight a different helpful video from his collection.

This week's Tech Tip Thursday is stars Guy in a Cube talking about best practices for integrating Power BI and OneDrive for Business. This video covers the subscription requirements for integration, and talks about the difference between importing your OneDrive for Business files into Power BI and simply accessing your data on OneDrive to maintain the file experience. It also covers sharing and storage between OneDrive for Business and Power BI, and the benefits of using universal Office 365 Groups.

Related blog posts

Tech Tip Thursday: integrating Power BI and OneDrive for Business

October 9, 2023 by Kay Unkroth

We have some very exciting news to share with you today! We are thrilled to announce that we have just launched the public preview of Direct Lake mode for Power BI datasets in Fabric! Fabric is taking a bold bet on open data formats in OneLake.

January 23, 2023 by Kay Unkroth

Thanks to the latest backup and restore improvements, you can now restore a backup file even when the dataset size is near the Power BI Premium SKU limitation. You no longer need to be concerned that dataset size limits impact restorability. When restoring a dataset with the /forceRestore option, Power BI will try its best to perform the restore operation even when the available memory is limited.