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The SSRS RDL Migration tool is now available in SSRS 2017, SSRS 2019 and SSRS 2022! You can also migrate .pbix and .rdl files from Power BI Report Server January 2023 and Report Server September 2022.

We are announcing improvements to the Power BI audit logs that helps Power BI admins filter usage of Power BI data in Excel by workspace name and workspace id.

It’s our first on-premises data gateway release of 2023! Note that beginning on March 15, 2023, any Power BI dataflow using an on-premises data gateway version older than April 2021 might fail. To ensure your refreshes continue to work correctly, be sure to update your gateway to the latest version.

Beware of Power BI migration tools that do things that are unsupported or over-promise

Dataflows have been with us in Power BI for some time now, and people have gotten more used to them. However, as their popularity grows, so does the need to control them.

A tool for customizing and dynamically generating a tabular model from an existing tabular model. - m-kovalsky/MiniModelBuilder: A tool for customizing and dynamically generating a tabular model fr...

Are you interested in learning Power BI, but want to do it outside of your corporate environment? We’ve got great news for you! You can sign-up for the Microsoft 365 Developer Program entirel…

DataOps Principle #3: Embrace Change

ABSTRACT 📄 Do you know your data? Do you have confidence in the data of your Power BI solutions, no matter what? And do you already actively monitor for deviations from those expectations? Being in control of your data (quality) is essential for any solution, and it can be quite difficult to achie

Announcing Public Preview of new My workspace governance features that address some of the pain points of governing My workspaces for Power BI Service Admins

Do you have a a large dataset in Power BI Premium or Premium Per User? Do you have more than six tables that take a significant amount of time to refresh? If so, you may be able to speed up the per…

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Power BI Extension for VSCode

Back around 2015, Microsoft introduced the current Power BI platform to replace its "Power BI for Office 365" SharePoint/Excel-based offering that most people have long forgotten, with a focus of offering a self-service experience to business users. This product became so successful that a few years later Power BI Premium was positioned as "a superset

A complete solution to extract the Power BI audit log, Power BI tenant metadata and Microsoft Graph data. Using Azure Data Factory or Integration Pipelines in Azure Synapse Analytics - justBlindbae...

There are multiple ways organizations can engage with a data (DBA/analytics/data architect/ML/etc.) consultant. The type of engagement you choose affects the pace and deliverables of the project, a…

Explore the many benefits of leveraging code and no-code analytics technologies during your analytics go-to-market strategy with this blog.

Learn how to build an automated and customized Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline that integrates with Power BI using Azure DevOps.

Over the past month couple of months I got the opportunity to test out the new migration experience that was just made available for Public Preview this past month during the PASS Data Community Su…

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Power BI Gen2 capacity model significantly changed the way that Power BI resources are shared among multiple or reserved for individual customers. Attempting to draw a good analogy of how capacities work, however, leads to significant oversimplification. Simple analogies...

This blog discusses the different steps your organization can take to maximize the adoption of your dashboards, ML solutions, and analytics applications.

Licensing in Power BI os one of the most intimidating topics for the newbies. This article will demystify all the licensing options in a gentle and friendly way!

Over the last half year, I have been involved in many large migration projects from another BI tool to Power BI. All with a different setup, from Tableau, Microstrategy and from Analysis Services t…

In the previous post, I explained what content endorsement means in #PowerBI. In this post, how to enable #Certification in #AdminPortal and how to certify the contents.

I have some exciting news about the Power BI Deployment & Governance course. I'm thrilled to share that Mike Carlo will be taking over primary responsibility for the course as of Jan 1.

An introduction to the Power BI security planning articles.

What, How, When and Why on Power BI Governance!

Over the last half year, I have been involved in many large migration projects from another BI tool to Power BI. All with a different setup, from Tableau, Microstrategy and from Analysis Services t…

Power BI Virtual Network Gateway helps to connect from Microsoft Cloud services to your Azure data services within a VNet without the need of an on-premises data gateway. The VNet data gateway securely communicates with the data source, executes queries, and transmits results back to the service. The

Today, most companies are still struggling to become more data-driven. Even though data is inseparably connected with change, there's very little focus on change management. This article examines the three main sources of resistance to data and shares five tips for leading data-driven change.