SharePoint Longhorn https://sharepointlonghorn.com Occasionally useful ramblings and musings Tue, 29 Jun 2021 03:39:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.3 https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.45/bhm.331.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/cropped-sharepointlonghorn5-1-2-32x32.jpg SharePoint Longhorn https://sharepointlonghorn.com 32 32 77865907 The new Paginated Report visual is here! https://sharepointlonghorn.com/the-new-paginated-report-visual-is-here/ Tue, 29 Jun 2021 03:22:19 +0000 https://sharepointlonghorn.com/?p=1652 Last Friday Microsoft put out the Power BI June 2021 Feature Summary which included the much awaited Paginated Report visual. I’ve been waiting for this rather impatiently for the past few months and am thrilled that it is finally here. Read Chris Finlan‘s full post about the Paginated Report visual here: Paginated report visual for Power BI reports is now available in public preview. In my working world we utilize Paginated Reports quite heavily and the release of this visual...

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]]> 1652 Home Automation life hacks – Part 4 https://sharepointlonghorn.com/home-automation-life-hacks/ Wed, 23 Sep 2020 20:22:15 +0000 https://sharepointlonghorn.com/?p=1634 Alright folks, this is what drove me to write this entire series in the first place. I finally get to geek out about home automation! In part 3 of this series I talked about ergonomics & overall wellness which is worth a read if you jumped straight to this because it is geeky and about gear too. When we moved into our house 5 years ago I decided that I wanted to start making the shift to leverage home automation...

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]]> 1634 Thinking about ergonomics & overall wellness – Part 3 https://sharepointlonghorn.com/thinking-about-ergonomics-wellness/ Wed, 23 Sep 2020 18:38:01 +0000 https://sharepointlonghorn.com/?p=1629 In part 2 of this series I talked about making work & life balance which I think is a good lead in to this topic of ergonomics & wellness. This has been a concern of mine for many years because I started having pains that were eventually linked to repetitive stress. Since I am not going to stop spending 12 to 20 hours a day in front of a screen I needed to figure out some ways to manage my...

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]]> 1629 Making Work & Life balance – Part 2 https://sharepointlonghorn.com/making-work-life-balance/ https://sharepointlonghorn.com/making-work-life-balance/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2020 02:28:38 +0000 https://sharepointlonghorn.com/?p=1614 In part 1 of this series I talked about the upcoming Microsoft Ignite conference and the Table Talk that I will be participating in. I gave my “bona fides” around the evolution of my remote working background. In this part I will to focus on the factors that have helped me find success over the years and achieve an acceptable balance of life & work in the same space. When I started my new job with EY and knew that...

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]]> https://sharepointlonghorn.com/making-work-life-balance/feed/ 1 1614 Working from home – How are other people doing it? – Part 1 https://sharepointlonghorn.com/working-from-home-how-are-other-people-doing-it/ Sun, 13 Sep 2020 16:16:01 +0000 https://sharepointlonghorn.com/?p=1604 Microsoft Ignite is just around the corner and I am excited to be a part of the event once again. I have been honored to be a speaker for the past 5 years after being on staff for the first one. This year is obviously going to look very different from those previous 6 events, but this virtual event will still be rife with valuable information and great connection opportunities. This year the “shiny new stuff” technical sessions that I...

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]]> 1604 Get the Power BI Desktop External tools tab to show up https://sharepointlonghorn.com/get-the-power-bi-desktop-external-tools-tab-to-show-up/ Sun, 19 Jul 2020 20:36:36 +0000 https://sharepointlonghorn.com/?p=1587 The July 2020 release of Power BI Desktop brings some awesome new functionality with it: integration of external tools in the ribbon! There have been external tools written by community member and tools vendors for quite a while now, but they have never integrated with the product and shown up inside of the Power BI Desktop experience until now. This is exciting stuff because many of these tools are highly useful today and will continue to grow in importance as...

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]]> 1587 Accepted as Microsoft Regional Director https://sharepointlonghorn.com/microsoft-regional-director/ https://sharepointlonghorn.com/microsoft-regional-director/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2020 04:54:27 +0000 https://sharepointlonghorn.com/?p=1570 I am excited to announce that I was recently accepted as a Microsoft Regional Director! While I have been aware of the program for a long time, but I had never thought seriously about pursuing participation until this past year. Stephanie Donahue & I had many discussions when she joined the program and based upon her experience I decided I would accept her offer to nominate me and pursue joining the Regional Director (RD) ranks. I am truly appreciative for...

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]]> https://sharepointlonghorn.com/microsoft-regional-director/feed/ 4 1570 Updates from isolation https://sharepointlonghorn.com/updates-from-isolation/ https://sharepointlonghorn.com/updates-from-isolation/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2020 22:01:14 +0000 https://sharepointlonghorn.com/?p=1563 When I last wrote an update on my blog I shared news about life changes in the Himmelstein household and described how I was looking forward to making deliberate decisions about our future. Little did I know how the world was going to change between then and now. The impact of COVID-19 on our lives has been profound. We were in Houston at the start of the dudes Spring Break at the Rodeo when the Mayor shut it down. We...

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]]> https://sharepointlonghorn.com/updates-from-isolation/feed/ 1 1563 Change is in the air https://sharepointlonghorn.com/change-is-in-the-air/ Mon, 06 Jan 2020 20:27:36 +0000 https://sharepointlonghorn.com/?p=1551 The dawn of a new decade brings some welcome change to the Himmelstein house. In early December I left Rackspace and the timing couldn’t be better. I had been planning to take time off for the remainder of the year to spend time with Jill & the boys, so this allowed me to do so completely uninterrupted. At any other time of year I would have likely jumped right out and started searching for a new job & not slowed...

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]]> 1551 Office 365 Service Description Power BI report https://sharepointlonghorn.com/office-365-service-description-power-bi-report/ https://sharepointlonghorn.com/office-365-service-description-power-bi-report/#comments Thu, 14 Nov 2019 06:02:27 +0000 https://sharepointlonghorn.com/?p=1523 I did a thing tonight that I swore I would never do. I used the “Publish to web” feature in Power BI. I had a good reason and I followed the guidelines I always tell people to follow, but I still feel a bit icky about it. I was writing a document for a customer this afternoon and once again I ran into a situation where I wished that I could have the old Service Description Excel workbook that Microsoft...

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