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Microsoft Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools to analyze data and share insights. Power BI is part of the Office 365 suite of tools.

Microsoft Power BI gives faculty and staff a vast array of analytical tools geared at providing data understanding through an agile tool for visualization. Users can use this tool for a wide array of uses spanning from data discovery and visualization to annual reporting and anything in between.

Note: Eligibility of Power BI Pro licensing is limited to users with current Exchange/Email licenses on Office 365 (i.g. not Healthcare users) due to Office 365 Groups dependency

More information is available about this service on the BISSC Power BI Site.

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Maintenance

Services scheduled for maintenance over the next 7 days. Please refer to the calendar view of alerts for a complete schedule.
There is currently no planned maintenance.

Past 90 Days

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Alert History

Start: 
Friday, December 13, 2019 - 9:00pm
End: 
Saturday, December 14, 2019 - 12:00am
Description

Power BI will be unavailable during this time, but afterwards, users may need to restart sessions. Mobile app users may need to update their app and sign in again.

Last updated: 
Saturday, December 14, 2019 - 12:00am
Start: 
Saturday, September 28, 2019 - 9:00am
End: 
Saturday, September 28, 2019 - 12:00pm
Description

To support upcoming security enhancements to Oracle systems, we will upgrade Oracle drivers on a variety of centrally hosted SQL Server services. During this maintenance window, services will become sporadically unavailable. Please pause scheduled processes that run against these systems during this time.

Systems impacted include: 

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) systems:

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IOWASSISHOST4

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) systems:

IOWAREPORTS1
IOWAREPORTS2
IOWAREPORTSHOST3
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Contact the ITS SQL Server Database Administration Team at ITS-SQL-Help@uiowa.edu if you have questions or concerns.  

Last updated: 
Saturday, September 28, 2019 - 12:00pm
Start: 
Friday, February 22, 2019 - 1:00am
End: 
Friday, February 22, 2019 - 5:00am
Description

The Microsoft Power BI service will be down for scheduled maintenance. 

Last updated: 
Friday, February 22, 2019 - 5:00am

Microsoft Power BI Contact Information

ITS Power BI Support – PowerBI-Support@uiowa.edu