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portnerr
5 years agoNew Member
Power BI Get Data using Powershell
Power BI and Powershell - might be a duplicate. I do not think I was signed in properly on the first post. I am reasonably new to Power BI. I am trying to invoke PowerShell from Power BI. I do n...
- 5 years ago
Hey portnerr ,
the answer is, unfortunately, quite simple - you can't invoke Powershell from inside Power BI / Power Query.
Here I started to describe a solution I'm currently building:
An essential part of this solution is also Powershell, but it is not invoked by Power BI.
For this reason, you have to re-think your solution, create data using Powershell, and then use Power BI to pick-up the data.Regards,
Tom
Cibersmurf
4 years agoRegular Visitor
NOT TRUE.... You can run powershell inside PowerQuery Using R/Frames and pull data directly into powerbi.
https://tinylizard.com/using-powershell-data-source-power-bi/