Submitted by Stephen Ironmonger; BCS Cumbria North Branch chairman Robert Edgson will share his knowledge of PowerBI and Microsoft Fabric in the context of Data Architectures Date and time Tuesday 5 December, 6:30pm - 9:30pm Location Castle Green Hotel Castle Green Lane Kendal LA9 6RG Price Free Speaker Robert Edgson Agenda 6:30pm - Refreshments and networking 7:00pm - Presentation 8:30pm - Discussion and networking 9:30pm - Event ends   Synopsis Power BI is now under the umbrella of Microsoft Fabric. You were that reluctant Power BI admin. You have noticed things have changed; you want to put controls in place and try things out. But you simply do not know enough to make changes in your company tenancy confidently. After all, you only have one tenancy. In this session, I shall show you how to create a Microsoft developer sandbox with 25 M365 E5 Developer licenses. Enable Microsoft Fabric and point out some pitfalls I’ve fallen into when transitioning from Power BI Admin...

Submitted  Kay Hyde, RSPB England Communications Officer  Haweswater. Image credit: Patrick Neaves A team of sixty soldiers from the British Army had joined up with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) to reinvigorate the peat bog ecosystem at Haweswater, as part of an extensive landscape restoration effort.  This collaborative project happened on Thursday 19 October, marks the second year of the British Army’s ‘Global Charge’ green initiative, demonstrating their commitment to supporting local environmental projects. In an area of peat bog in the Riggindale Valley, the soldiers will be using their strength, and crucially, their engineering expertise, to strategically move several huge boulders and 1,000 natural bags of earth, so that water will be captured and held in place to re-wet this landscape for a thriving habitat to develop. Haweswater, nestled in the Eastern Lake District, was selected as the site of this partnership due to its long-term conserva...