A Fabric health check: three questions to ask your tenant
Are you paying for more capacity than you need, which workspaces are still in use, and how do changes reach production? Where to look in Fabric for each answer.
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Notes on Power BI, Fabric and AI.
What is changing in the tools, why it matters, and what to do about it in your own environment. Written by Nathan Giullian.
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Moving from Power BI Premium to Fabric: a practical guide
Premium P SKUs retire when your agreement ends, and the move to Fabric is not automatic. How to size, plan, move and check it, with a free printable checklist.
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See your Claude Code usage by client
A Claude Code skill that reads the session logs on your computer, groups them by client, prices them at API rates and builds a report. Mac and Windows.
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Name your Claude Code sessions after the client
How to name a Claude Code session automatically. A small hook titles each session after its client folder, so your session list reads like a client list.
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How we use Claude in a one-person consulting business
A working tour of Claude Code in a small consultancy: OneDrive as the file system, VS Code as the desk, and the automations that keep the business running.
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PBIR becomes the default: why it supercharges Power BI development
PBIR is now the default Power BI report format. Readable files mean Git diffs, code review and AI-assisted development, while Power BI Desktop stays supported.
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How to clean up decoupled default semantic models in Microsoft Fabric
Fabric decoupled its default semantic models in November 2025, and many are still sitting in workspaces. A seven-step cleanup, from inventory to governance.
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Office Online Server retirement: what Power BI Report Server users should do
Office Online Server reaches end of support on December 31, 2026, and Power BI Report Server stops hosting Excel through it in November. A five-step plan.
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How Microsoft Fabric solves Power BI's API problem
Data behind an API used to be Power BI’s weak spot. In Fabric a notebook lands API data in a lakehouse on a schedule and Power BI reads the lakehouse instead.
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Power BI still holds its own without Fabric
When Power BI alone is enough: simple sources, batch data, models under ten million rows, Pro or PPU licensing. How to know when Fabric capacity is worth it.
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Choosing the right Microsoft Fabric architecture for your business size
Three Microsoft Fabric architectures for small, medium and large organizations: what runs on capacity, when to add deployment pipelines, and when F64 pays off.
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Running GPT-OSS locally with Ollama
OpenAI released open-weight GPT-OSS models. How to run the 20B model on a laptop with Ollama, and what a local model is actually good for in a small business.
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Why Fabric sunsetting default semantic models is a win
Microsoft stopped auto-creating default semantic models in Fabric. Why the auto-generated models hurt workspaces, and what a deliberate semantic layer needs.
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