We have TFS 2019 installed on premise, want to create PowerBI reports based on analytics Views that are already predefined in TFS. Selecting GetData in PowerBI yields a login screen with collection URL and Team Project. We entered TFS sever name in URL connection and the Team Project respectively, getting an error "invalid account". Prior to this PowerBI asked for Login, logged in with my microsoft user. Can u please advise how to connect Power BI to a TFS on premise, we didn't find helpful material searching for it on the internet. Thanks in advance.
Can u please advise how to connect Power BI to a TFS on premise, we
didn't find helpful material searching for it on the internet.
Assuming you have Power BI Desktop in MachineA. Now you need to make sure:
1.The Azure Devops Server is running and you can login the web portal of Azure Devops Server(once called TFS) in MachineA's browser:
2.The Analytics View option is enabled and you have access to view/edit them:
3.In Power BI Desktop: For on-premise Azure Devops Server, the Collection Url shoule be the team collection url instead of simple ServerName or OrgName:
The Team Project name is one of your project name. For me I have Project ForTest in organization Test. And my full url of the project is: http://xxx/Test/ForTest/. So I enter http://xxx/Test/ for Collection Url and ForTest(simple name of team project !!) for Team Project, then it works well to connect to the server:
Ps: I use Azure Devops Server 2019 Update1(1.1) and latest Power BI Desktop downloaded from Microsoft Store.
Hope my steps make some help for you :)
When the login window appears which asking for Account Name to connect TFS, you need to write only name of the account (beginning name of visualtstudio.com) and write specific project name or * if you want to get data for all existing projects.
Eventually what worked was full URL of the collection in the first field and name of team proejct in the second field.
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Which is the service connection that I should choose for a power BI connection with Azure DevOps?
The official extension that is provided from Microsoft can be located on the below link.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-pbi-api.pbi-automation-tools
It seems that is the one you choose from the dropdown. There are other extensions also that have been developed by community members and you could also choose one of them depending on your needs.
I had installed Azure Devops on our Windows 2019 server. The server has 5 users and all of them were created as local users on the server. I added these 5 users in Dev Ops project. Four of these users started using visual studio directly on the same server and have cloned project from on premises Azure dev ops. When they connected to the Azure dev ops server, they simply used User1, User2.... username and their windows password to connect to the Azure.
After a couple of weeks, we implemented Active Directory and added this server into the active directory group. The existing four users are still able to pull, push the same project. However, when the fifth user which never logged in now needs to connect to the Azure Dev Ops to clone the project. When he tries to connect via Visual Studio, the visual studio adds Domain into the user name e.g. DomainName\User5 and azure dev ops connectivity is not accepting his windows password. This user is not a domain user and is local to the server. This user can login to Azure Dev Ops when accessing it from browser, but unable to connect when trying it from Visual Studio.
Also, when I logged in directly to Azure Dev Ops (on premises) and try to add members to project, it does not show domain users. It only shows local server users.
Do I need to reinstall Azure dev ops, what should be the apprpriate way to fix this issue?
Thanks
When the fifth tried to use Visual Studio to connect the project, and access the project on web browser, did he do these things also directly on the same server machine?
Due the fifth user can access the project on web browser, the account of this user should not have issue. The problem seems occurs on Visual Studio when trying the authentication for the account.
Please try to check with the following things to see if the problem can be solved:
Check if the user has login to Visual Studio with his account.
Check if Visual Studio has saved or cached the account information of other users. If yes, clean the cache. Then login to Visual Studio with the fifth user's account.
When trying to connect to the project on Visual Studio, make sure the the selected user id the fifth user.
If the issue still exists, please share us with the details error message that the fifth user gets.
I am following along the tutorial with SmartHotel360 and trying to set it up. In the README.md, it says 'In VSTS, navigate to Services by clicking on the gear icon...' and this is to create a new service endpoint. Where is this done? What is VSTS? Visual Studio Team Server? Do I first make a branch of the SmartHotel360 and open this in Visual Studio? What if I am using one email account to access the code where the tasks are assigned and another email to complete the courses? Does this make a difference?
I guess my question is, where is this VSTS? Is this where I view the SmartHotel360 code?
Azure DevOps Services was formerly named Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) -- rebranded as Azure DevOps in 2018. So the tutorial you followed should be before 2018.
The github README.md about SmartHotel360(like this) are retired, archived, and no longer supported. For the latest sample references please visit: https://aka.ms/tailwindtraders & https://aka.ms/rpsls
To interact with Azure, you'll need to create a Service Endpoint in Azure DevOps. This endpoint includes the authentication information required to deploy to Azure. This document gives a guide to configure Service Endpoint in Azure DevOps, please refer to it.
I have some data present on Azure-DevOps which is constantly updated. To get the updated data, I have to create a dashboard which I do through power BI. The problem with power BI is that I'm unable to share the created dashboard with the rest of my colleagues due to the unavailability of Power BI at the enterprise level. At the enterprise level, we have access to MicroStrategy but it doesn't provide a connection to Azure-DevOps. Hence, through the Power BI dashboard, I am forced to create an excel file which I have to refresh and then feed to MicroStrategy so that I can get a dashboard on MicroStrategy.
Is there a way I can connect MicroStrategy to Azure-DevOps or somehow eliminate the manual work involved?
How can I make a connection between Azure-Dev Ops and microstrategy?
For this issue , I am afraid that it is currently not supported to connect azure devops with microstrategy . I didn't find any way to do this .
You could submit a feature request in our Develop Community site. Our PM and product team will kindly review your suggestion. Sorry for any inconvenience.
At present, there seems to be no better way except using Excel Services to pull data from the azure devops data warehouse to microstrategy. This is similar to create Excel based charts and host them on SharePoint sites.
You can refer to this Displaying Excel Reports on SharePoint sites will continue to work part of the docs.
I think I may be missing something and hope you can advise
I have been developing a project using VS2013 with EF6. I use Visual Studio each time I want to deploy the latest version of the system to my Azure Website.
The Azure Website has a linked database resource (SQL Azure database).
This has been going great. However, yesterday I decided to create a Virtual Machine and move the SQL database to a dedicated Azure Virtual Machine. So I did this and now I have a new database as well as the old linked resource one
So, i'm ready to publish the APP and set the new database settings on the VM.
I changed the connection string in the publish wizard and published being sure to have the right settings, i.e. use this connection string at runtime and execute code first migrations etc
However, it took me a while to realise that the APP on the cloud server I just published too is still pointing to the OLD linked resource Azure database
I'm not sure what else I have to do to, I thought it was only about changing the publish setting for the database connection string
Am I missing something, should I delete the linked resource in the Azure Website settings, if i do would that make it work. Just weird because like I say i'm publishing the site again with new settings, or does Azure read the portals publish settings and somehow overidde what I want it to point to database wise
Please advise, many thanks
John
PS I can connect fine to the new database from my local management studio. I have no errors i'm just not sure how to tell Azure to use the connect string in publish profile other than what i am doing
The "linked resource" in the Windows Azure management portal should have no impact on your application's functionality. It is really just a way to help you understand / visualize the resources your application is using.