Connecting to Sharepoint

[NirH_at_BITeam]

Hi,

Before rolling out the new version of workspace, each time we created a workspace it created a sharepoint collaboration site where we used to share files and even upload Excels as data sources to Power BI models.

With the new version of workspace, this sharepoint collaboration is no longer been created and I wonder, how I can mimic the same process we used to have in the past.

The idea is to have shared Excel file on sharepoint, that Power BI will be connected to as the data source and a couple of users can login to that sharepoint folder and update the Excel data.

Again, that was a very straight forward and simple process in the past but now seems like it's gone...

Thanks!

NH 

[v-qiuyu-msft]

Hi @NirH_at_BITeam,

Form this article, you can see: 

• Create a workspace in Power BI without creating an Office 365 group.

In the new preview version app workspace, when can also get data from Excel stored in SharePoint online site. But you need to create a SharePoint site manually if you don't create before as creating a new preview version app workspace in Power BI will not generate a corresponding Office 365 group.

Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu