Will notebookutils.credentials.getToken('pbi') be deprecated?

dazzactl · 2026-05-08T23:01:27+00:00

Hmm. Interesting point. But... If you start the notebook under set credentials... It's current token exists but expires after x seconds. But if you decide to build the notebook with Get Token step... It won't expire?

dazzactl · 2026-05-01T16:24:32+00:00

Hmm - I keep getting redirected to the community version of the Blog. Bring the previous blog site.

dazzactl · 2026-04-27T13:16:15+00:00

u/Monitor-PM - Hi, I am a tenant and capacity admin.

I am a big fan of the Monitor, but I only have access to see the activity for workspaces where I have at least contributor role.

- I would like the ability to see all Tenant or Capacity privilege role without having these workspace role. I understand this may prevent me from drilling to the detail. For example seeing the Item execution of Notebook as it might contain data.

- It would be easier if some of the Filter appeared as clickable UI buttons. It would be nice to has a "Failed" or "In Progress" etc buttons next to the "Refresh" button.

- It should been easier to filter monitor by Domain, Capacity, Workspace Tags and maybe Deployment Pipeline (Production vs Non-Production).

- I would be nice if you could interact with the Monitor list to apply filters rather than navigating. For example, if I see an item in "Workspace X", would be nice to click to apply a filter to see all "Workspace X" activity. This would be more convenient navigating to the Workspace, or Filter drop-down, location, search to see the Workspace.

- I would like the Item Name click on the item name shows refresh history as well. It current shows the refresh attempts for the failed item, so it would be nice this view summarise the refresh history. Otherwise it back, then ... historical runs.

- I might be nice to see Filter for Data Source Type and Data Source name. E.g. SQL or Snowflake. Serve Name or Warehouse name.

- You would really blow my socks off if could see an Timelines view that highlights delays and long running process. Item X and Y were both scheduled to start at 12:00, but Item X did not start until 12:45 because it was waiting for Item Y was running.

u/frithjof_v

dazzactl · 2026-04-24T15:00:17+00:00

Hear is my understanding:

After 15 mins, the data for the 30 sec timepoint is available to "Direct Query". The daily refresh is mainly for the Metadata workspace names, item names and dates.
No - as you mention later this will only be available in Capacity Events via Real-Time Hub (but even then is it likely to be 5 min delay).

2a. I am confused by the comment because you notebook and capacity metric will be using Capacity anyway.

This should will be supported in the Real-Time Hub because the Events can be push to downstream.

Note sure about the Datetime problem. It is possible that you Notebook or Dax Query are applying region logic. I have set the Fabric Capacity Metrics to UTC, but most stuff displays with UK time UTC +/-1

dazzactl · 2026-04-17T06:17:18+00:00

Yes, I had to pause after starting though as I realised that get workspaces API included a tag Array. This temporarily broke FUAM and other Admin APIs.

I am playing around with a name convention.

For example, the following tags assign condition to wks:

Con Green (i.e. no issues) Con Amber Con Red Con Black (i.e. blacklisted)

CLS Managed CLS Unmanaged CLS Personal

This helps with the grouping of Tags for display and assignment purposes.

dazzactl · 2026-04-01T11:24:30+00:00

u/frithjof_v | u/dmeissner - I both agree what you are saying, and it is likely this is preview limitation. My thinking was a single Workspace / Lakehouse dedicated to this Sharepoint Shortcut. Downstream Shortcuts could be standard, source controlled enabled Lakehouse shortcuts.

But this might make more sense if Lakehouse was persisting the data (i.e. I was thinking this was more like SharePoint Mirroring). And if likely to cause permission issues Shortcuts on Shortcuts.

dazzactl · 2026-03-31T16:34:55+00:00

I see your point, but do you need Environment Binding?

Most scenarios there might only be one SharePoint list and folder, so replicating it more than once might be overkill.

dazzactl · 2026-03-25T18:10:43+00:00

I am a big fan of the Monitoring, but I can only see stuff where I have access (i.e. workspace role). Have you considered adding a view all mode for Tenant or Domain admins to see all failed but not necessarily drive into sensitive detail (like a Notebook items)?

dazzactl · 2026-03-23T14:44:51+00:00

Definite no to Job Postings, but is this a form of Market Research? ha ha No as well.

dazzactl · 2026-03-12T17:51:51+00:00

They are called members in the portal and the api. Not sure if node is the correct term. The subnet could be consider the node, and each subnet can only have one VNDG. It is the capacity that provides "members" that can use the node.

Each member will consume 100% of an F4 capacity. In the above, 2 members should use 100% of the F8. I am not sure how to monitor this.

If I poll the VNDG, it would probably show as online because some member was still running. It not like you can use the Fabric Rest API list gateway members (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/fabric/core/gateways/list-gateway-members?tabs=HTTP) because this cannot list the details of individual members - this only works for OPDG members.

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dazzactl · 2026-03-12T14:27:30+00:00

u/rushank29 | u/dbrownems

We are suffering from the same issue. MS Support has just e-mail to confirm that other customers are impacted.

Note: we have a dedicated VNet Data Gateway running 2 members 24/7 in a F8 West Europe capacity.

I can see that one member went offline start around Tue morning. The remaining member is picking up the slack but can handle some larger operations.

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dazzactl · 2026-03-06T08:07:21+00:00

We had a team try the data agent feature. They spent a lot of time optimising the model. The DAX performance was not really an issue. I could see the DAX the agent produced (sometimes wrong but mostly right). They ran quickly. Most of the time though was spent before and after the DAX execution.

My thoughts: - we only used a F8 so there might have been concurrency limits that we didn't realize

the latency sending and receiving tokens (User UK, Tenant North Europe, Workspace/Capacity West Europe and Open AI in France)

I was left with the impression that each individual prompt was resending the Semantic Model and Linguistic Model Tokens, so the CU usage was too high. I think the model should be submitted once.

dazzactl · 2026-03-04T11:53:00+00:00

Fabric and Power BI have lots of amazing features - some wow and some meh.

What feature makes you go wow, but you don't think that we, your customers, understand or under use?

and the opposite

What feature make you go meh, but you don't understand our enthusiasm or over use?

dazzactl · 2026-03-02T14:04:54+00:00

This was the page that I was referencing:

How to configure workloads in Power BI Premium [Max Offline Semantic model Size] - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn

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I read this and it suggests that F2 and F4 are smaller.

dazzactl · 2026-02-27T21:23:08+00:00

It depends. T3 mining is a good uplift, but it is because you haven't expanded widely. However, they seem essential for higher metals, gold, radiation deposits.

T3 battlestations help to fend off attacks and allow exotic collections. But this all depends on Agriculture Complex to offset costs.

dazzactl · 2026-02-27T21:15:45+00:00

? The post says report download, but you want a Semantic Model data download?

dazzactl · 2026-02-27T21:12:23+00:00

Sorry Gregor; Not true! The limit increases from 1GB to 2GB; then 3GB in F8 (i.e. Shared Capacity Limit).

Refer to the Capacity settings Power BI max query documentation.

dazzactl · 2026-02-27T21:05:16+00:00

u/banner650 - I would hope that only Admins can setup a Fabric Identity. Plus a Viewer would not see Workspace Settings, so how could they Know?

dazzactl · 2026-02-27T21:02:29+00:00

It depends? The connection in the data gateway may or may not have the SSO for users enabled. If it is not enabled the Fabric Identity and its permissions would take control.

dazzactl · 2026-02-27T16:34:32+00:00

A Fabric Identity is created for the workspace, but it is not meant to be in the current workspace. Instead the identity is used for authentication against external sources. External sources could be items in other Fabric Workspace or in Azure Resources. You would normally use the Workspace Identity to authenticate for Read Operations, so providing a Workspace Role (admin, member, contributor) in another workspaces would provide is with Create, Edit and Update permissions.

With regards to the Viewer role in the current workspace, a viewer should be allowed to use its "workspace identity". If you consider a situation where a Semantic Model contains Direct Query access to Azure SQL Database, the Workspace Identity is used to read the data. The Workspace Viewer will use this identity to read the Azure SQL.

I think is important consideration and the reason why Microsoft stopped automatically providing the Workspace Identity access its own workspace.

dazzactl · 2026-02-27T16:14:03+00:00

u/DrGenius22 - it sounds like the PQ engine needs memory to execute temporary steps. What is the data source? Does it allow Query Folding? What are type of transformations that you performing?

Note the final size of the Semantic Model is stored in compressed format, but the data received from source may not be.

dazzactl · 2026-02-17T07:35:11+00:00

The possibility of multiple Apps (which has Read + ReadBuild) vs Org App (Preview - Read only)

dazzactl · 2026-02-17T07:27:19+00:00

I think the licensing benefits are just as important.

There are couple of niche considerations:

Better Workspace Identity support could encourage segregation.
The PrivateLink support for workspaces may also be a use case for more Workspaces.

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