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  • Download Power BI Reports using PowerShell

    April 14th, 2022 in Blog, Power BI, PowerShell, Uncategorized

    In this blog post I will be sharing a PowerShell script that allows multiple Power BI reports to be downloaded at once. In the Power BI service, there is no way of downloading multiple Power BI reports at once. Therefore, users must download files one by one which is slow, time consuming and inefficient. Thankfully, there are ways around this, one of which is using PowerShell. The script is downloadable at the bottom of the page as a txt file.…

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  • Azure Storage Backup Retention

    November 22nd, 2021 in Analysis Services, Azure, Blog, PowerShell

    This blog is a follow up to a previous blog I wrote about backing up Azure Analysis Services cubes in Azure, that blog can be found here. This blog shows how to implement a retention policy using PowerShell in Azure Runbooks to remove the backups after a set number of days. To create a new Runbook in the Azure portal, go to the relevant Automation account in the relevant resource group and then select Runbooks from the left hand pane. Note you…

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  • Azure Analysis Services Cube Backup

    December 23rd, 2020 in Analysis Services, Azure, Blog, PowerShell

    This blog is a quick guide on how to back up an Azure Analysis Services cube using PowerShell. The PowerShell is used in a runbook inside an Automation account in Azure to automate the backup process. A pre-requisite for this is to configure the backup storage settings, this details the location of the backups. Two parameters are passed into the runbook (shown below), where AnalysisServerName is the server name for the analysis services cube and…

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  • Azure SSIS – How to Setup, Deploy, Execute & Schedule Packages

    January 8th, 2018 in ADFv2, Azure, Blog, PowerShell

    Welcome back to work in 2018! 🙂 Let’s get stuck in with a hot topic. How do we actually use our beloved SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages in Azure with all this new platform as a service (PaaS) stuff? Well, in this post I’m going to go through it end to end. Post Contents Azure Services Setup Azure Data Factory v2 Azure SQL Instance Azure SSIS IR Creating & Deploying the SSIS Package SSIS Azure Feature Pack…

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  • What’s New in Azure Data Factory Version 2 (ADFv2)

    September 24th, 2017 in ADFv2, Azure, Blog, C#, JSON, PowerShell

    I’m sure for most cloud data wranglers the release of Azure Data Factory Version 2 has been long overdue. Well good news friends. It’s here! So, what new features does the service now offer for handling our Azure data solutions?… In short, loads! In this post, I’ll try and give you an overview of what’s new and what to expect from ADFv2. However, I’m sure more questions than answers will be raised here. As developers we…

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  • Recursive U-SQL With PowerShell (U-SQL Looping)

    May 7th, 2017 in Azure, Blog, PowerShell, U-SQL, Visual Studio

    In its natural form U-SQL does not support recursive operations and for good reason. This is a big data, scale out, declarative language where the inclusion of procedural, iterative code would be very unnatural. That said, if you must pervert things PowerShell can assist with the looping and dare I say the possibility for dynamic U-SQL. A couple of caveats… From the outset, I accept this abstraction with PowerShell to achieve some…

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  • Azure Data Lake Authentication from Azure Data Factory

    December 2nd, 2016 in Azure, Blog, C#, PowerShell, Visual Studio

    rereTo set the scene for the title of this blog post lets firstly think about other services within Azure. You’ll probably already know that most services deployed require authentication via some form of connection string and generated key. These keys can be granted various levels of access and also recycled as required, for example an IoT Event Hub seen below (my favourite service to play with). Then we have other services like SQLDB that…

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  • Changing the Start Up App on Windows 10 IoT Core

    August 19th, 2016 in Blog, IoT, PowerShell, UWP, Visual Studio, Windows

    Changing the start up application on your IoT device running Windows IoT Core seems to be a common requirement once the device is out in the field so I hope this post exploring a few different ways of doing this will be of value to people. To clarify the behaviour we will achieve below is from device power on our Windows 10 IoT Core operating system will boot up. But instead of starting the default application which is originally named…

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  • Controlling Your Windows 10 IoT Core Device

    June 16th, 2016 in Blog, IoT, PowerShell, Raspberry Pi, Windows

    If like me you have a several Raspberry Pi’s doing different things and running different operating systems controlling them can sometimes be a bit of a challenge, especially with a wealth of remote control protocols and command line tools to choose from. In this post I’m specifically exploring the different ways to control your Raspberry Pi running Windows 10 IoT Core. The thing that surprised me…

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  • Using Hyper-V and PowerShell to Create the Perfect Developer Workstation

    May 23rd, 2016 in Blog, Hyper-V, PowerShell, Purple Frog Systems, SQL Server

    So the second challenge I faced after unboxing and plugging in my new workstation at Purple Frog Systems was software. Having customers using all versions of SQL Server from 2005 onwards I didn’t want to tie myself to a particular version locally and I also didn’t want the hassle of running lots of different SQL Server services all on the same host operating system. Especially if I wanted to use Windows 10 as my host, which as we…

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