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The EPC Group blog collects the firm's working notes on enterprise Microsoft programs: Microsoft 365 and Copilot, Azure, Power BI and Fabric, Dynamics 365, security, governance and adoption. It is written for the architects, IT leaders and compliance owners who run those programs and need a specific decision explained rather than a product overview.

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Power BI Refresh Architecture: Why Your Reports Break Every Monday Morning | EPC Group
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Power BI Refresh Architecture: Why Your Reports Break Every Monday Morning | EPC Group

Enterprise guide to Power BI refresh architecture. Gateway configuration, incremental refresh, dataflow dependencies, capacity throttling, monitoring

Errin O'Connor
April 6, 2026
How to Organize 200+ Power BI Reports Into an Intuitive Navigation Structure | EPC Group
Power BI5 min read

How to Organize 200+ Power BI Reports Into an Intuitive Navigation Structure | EPC Group

Enterprise guide to organizing 200+ Power BI reports into a scalable navigation hierarchy. Workspace strategy, app navigation design, folder governanc

Errin O'Connor
April 4, 2026
Power BI Report Sprawl: Why More Reports Means Less Intelligence | EPC Group
Power BI5 min read

Power BI Report Sprawl: Why More Reports Means Less Intelligence | EPC Group

Enterprise guide to combating Power BI report sprawl. Report rationalization strategies, workspace governance, usage analytics, retirement policies, a

Errin O'Connor
April 3, 2026
Row-Level Security in Power BI: The Enterprise Configuration Guide | EPC Group
Power BI5 min read

Row-Level Security in Power BI: The Enterprise Configuration Guide | EPC Group

Enterprise guide to implementing row-level security (RLS) in Power BI. Dynamic RLS with DAX, testing methodology, hybrid OLS approaches, and deploymen

Errin O'Connor
April 3, 2026
Power BI Semantic Model Governance: One Definition of Revenue | EPC Group
Power BI5 min read

Power BI Semantic Model Governance: One Definition of Revenue | EPC Group

Enterprise guide to Power BI semantic model governance. Certified datasets, semantic model endorsement, measure libraries, composite models, and preve

Errin O'Connor
April 2, 2026
Risk-Smart Analytics: Compliance Partners | EPC Group
Power BI5 min read

Risk-Smart Analytics: Compliance Partners | EPC Group

Why compliance-first organizations choose specialized Microsoft partners over Big 4 firms for risk-smart analytics. HIPAA Power BI, SOC 2 analytics, F

Errin O'Connor
April 2, 2026
Replacing SMB File Shares with SharePoint: Security-First Migration Guide | EPC Group
SharePoint5 min read

Replacing SMB File Shares with SharePoint: Security-First Migration Guide | EPC Group

Step-by-step guide to migrating from SMB file shares to SharePoint Online. Discovery, NTFS-to-SharePoint permission mapping, migration tools, folder r

Errin O'Connor
April 1, 2026
Salesforce to Power BI via Microsoft Fabric: The Modern Data Pipeline | EPC Group
Power BI5 min read

Salesforce to Power BI via Microsoft Fabric: The Modern Data Pipeline | EPC Group

Build a production Salesforce to Power BI pipeline using Microsoft Fabric. Connector options, CDC patterns, object mapping, lakehouse staging, and sem

Errin O'Connor
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Security-First Governance Architecture for Enterprise Analytics | EPC Group
Power BI5 min read

Security-First Governance Architecture for Enterprise Analytics | EPC Group

Microsoft consulting since 1997 | 4x bestselling author (Microsoft Press / Sams) | Former NASA Lead Architect

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April 1, 2026

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