Reporting, playing with data and creating all kinds of charts is always fun. PowerBI is probably the simplest playground doing it.

While doing an O365 / EMS project, management wanted a simple dashboard to keep track of different KPI’s in the project. Example on the data they wanted was number of onboarded users to Exchange Online and enrolled devices in Intune. The Office 365 adoption content pack is in preview and provides lots of insights to how the services are used (in some cases, maybe too much)… In this specific case, we also had an Intune Cloud Only environment, so our reporting as well as delegation possibilites were very limited.

Luckily enough, some Intune data (and its growing and growing) are nowdays exposed through the Microsoft Graph for us to consume with PowerBI directly with REST and OData.

In my example, I will simply get all registered devices to create my report. To find what possibilites there are, look in to the Microsoft Graph Documentation. If you want to use query parameters, you’ll find the supported ones here.

1. First connect and load the OData feed from Microsoft Graph. In my case I am using the https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/devices endpoint. Sign in with an organizational account or app that have appropriate permissions.

2. After the data has been loaded successfully in to PowerBI it’s time to create som nice charts!

Result – My “finished” basic report

This was a simple example how to get started with PowerBI and the Microsoft Graph – hopefully you’ve now got some inspiration on what possibilites there are with just five minutes effort. Imagine what you could do if you really put in some time. 🙂

Happy reporting!

/Johan