571: Fabric Notebook Toolkit - Measuring the Impact

Mike, we got a few things on the docket today.

First, the next Chicago user group is happening next week, next Thursday, the 22nd of October, 3:00 PM, downtown Chicago, and it's all about, uh, the Power BI and Fabric MCPs.

We're gonna walk through how to install it, uh, both the local semantic model, uh, Power BI authoring one, and then also the Fabric Remote MCP.

We're gonna showcase what capabilities it has, and we're gonna build both using the design of, um, building out semantic, uh, models and measures and relationships, while also-

Mm-hmm

...managing everything that we have, doing a recon session in Fabric.

So we'd love to have you.

Make sure to RSVP before Wednesday of next week to make sure that you're in with your full name in your Meetup username, or p- just provide it when you actually sign up, because that's very important.

And we're really excited to keep going on on our monthly cadence.

You're gonna enjoy this one.

I will make a note around-

Mm

...some experiences that I've been having inside VS Code with GitHub Copilot and trying to get my agents to do what I want inside VS Code.

It's been a little bit of a trickier, um, I'll just share with people 'cause I'm finding it-

Yeah

...challenging.

One of the things I've been trying to do in VS Code is, um, there has been the Power BI modeling MCP server.

And so there is the extension on how you build it.

Mm-hmm.

I believe there's also now a plugin that they're moving towards, and so I've-- So a couple things.

First things first, when I've been using VS Code, I'm like, "What happened to the chat window? The chat window's all different now."

[laughs]

Well, for whatever reason, when, for some reason, the VS Code has now changed its default interaction, and this is something I didn't, I wasn't aware of.

When you go into VS Code and you open the chat window, previously it was always set to local mode.

Local mode-