Recording of monthly Need to Know webinar for December 2020 that focused on providing a deep dive into PowerBI. The session also includes Microsoft Cloud news and updates along with an open Q and A session around Microsoft 365.

1. Need to Know Microsoft 365
Webinar
December 2020
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9. Agenda
- Microsoft 365 Update
- PowerBI
- Q & A

11. News
• Solorigate / Fireeye-
• https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/12/17/cyberattacks-cybersecurity-solarwinds-fireeye/
• Analyzing Solorigate -
• https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/12/18/analyzing-solorigate-the-compromised-dll-file-that-started-
a-sophisticated-cyberattack-and-how-microsoft-defender-helps-protect/
• Stay current with in-demand skills through free certification renewals -
• https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-learn-blog/stay-current-with-in-demand-skills-through-free-
certification/ba-p/1489678
• Breakout rooms generally available in Microsoft Teams -
• https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/breakout-rooms-generally-available-today-in-
microsoft-teams/ba-p/1968481
• Add to OneDrive is generally available -
• https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-onedrive-blog/add-to-onedrive-is-generally-available/ba-
p/1914772

12. Power BI

13. SharePoint Excel
Data
model
Report
design
Power BI Power BI Desktop

14. A powerful new way to work with data
Self-service business intelligence and analytics with Excel and the power of the cloud

15. Discover
Analyze
Visualize
Explore
Analyzing data with Excel

16. Analyzing data with Excel
Discover
Analyze
Visualize
Explore

17. Analyzing data with Excel
Discover
Analyze
Visualize
Explore

18. Analyzing data with Excel
Discover
Analyze
Visualize
Explore

19. A powerful new way to work with data
Self-service business intelligence with familiar Excel and the power of the cloud

20. Shared Queries
Data Refresh
Data Search
Mobile Access
Power BI Site
Share & collaborate with Power BI for Office 365

21. Queries
Data Refresh
Data Search
Mobile Access
Power BI Site
Share & collaborate with Power BI for Office 365

22. Power BI
for Office 365
Data Management Gateway
Installed on-premises
Workbook
Cloud
On Premise
Share & collaborate with Power BI for Office 365
Shared Queries
Data Refresh
Data Search
Mobile Access
Power BI Site

23. Share & collaborate with Power BI for Office 365
Shared Queries
Data Refresh
Data Search
Mobile Access
Power BI Site
Search for:
• Public Data
• Corporate Data
• Shared Queries

24. Share & collaborate with Power BI for Office 365
Shared Queries
Data Refresh
Data Search
Mobile Access
Power BI Site

25. Demo

26. A powerful new way to work with data
Analyze
Visualize
Discover
Search, access, and transform
public and internal data sources
with Power Query
Easy data modeling and
lightning fast in-memory
analytics with Power Pivot
Bold new interactive data
visualizations with Power View
and Power Map
Share
Question
Q&A
Mobility
Share data views and
workbooks refreshable from on-
premises and cloud based data
sources
Ask questions and get
immediate answers with natural
language query
Mobile access through HTML5
and touch optimized apps

27. Take aways
•User Power BI to connect to standard services like
Google Analytics.
•Configure the Microsoft 365 analytics content pack.
•Look to build connections to the variety of data
sources both cloud and on prem.
•Build industry standard dashboards and analytics.
•Understand the data and model you want before
creating your dashboards.

28. Resources
• Power BI- http://www.powerbi.com/
• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy--PYvwBwAeuYaR8JLmrfg
• Documentation – https://support.powerbi.com/
• Tips for designing a great Power BI dashboard -
https://support.powerbi.com/knowledgebase/articles/433616-tips-for-designing-a-great-
power-bi-dashboard
• Enable Microsoft 365 usage analytics - https://support.office.com/en-
us/article/enable-microsoft-365-usage-analytics-9db96e9f-a622-4d5d-b134-09dcace55b6a
• Guided learning - https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/guided-learning/
• Tips for designing a great Power BI Dashboard -
https://support.powerbi.com/knowledgebase/articles/433616-tips-for-designing-a-great-
power-bi-dashboard

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• Free Office 365, Azure video tutorials – http://www.youtube.com/directorciaops
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• Office 365, Azure, Cloud podcast – http://ciaops.podbean.com
• Office 365, Azure online training courses – http://www.ciaopsacademy.com
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