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If you’re monitoring activity in Power BI, for example using Log Analytics, you’ll know that you can capture the DAX queries generated by your published Power BI reports. How do you mak…

Overview of how to use log analytics in Power BI

After a short holiday break, it is time for a new blog post! This time about one of the most exciting functionalities in Power BI that has been released in the past release wave, Power BI Deploymen…

This week, I’ve presented at two conferences in Europe about Application Lifecycle Management for Power BI. During these sessions at DataMinds Connect and Techorama I’ve talked and demo…

Analyze, visualize, and report on your data using 92 new DAX functions when creating measures in Power Pivot.

I have been blogging about DAX since before Power BI was a product; I started back in 2014 and Power BI was first released as generally available in mid 2015.  Until about 2017, the only way you could build a commercially viable production reporting tool that used DAX was via [...]Read More »

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Did you know Microsoft Clarity has a browser extension? The Clarity Live Browser Extension provides even more benefit when using this tool

At Microsoft Ignite 2022, we were pleased to share some exciting innovations for Power Automate, empowering makers and pro-coders with new ways to automate and scale enterprise-wide with AI.

Today, we’re excited to announce that Community Templates are now available, giving our community members an opportunity to contribute to our existing template gallery.    Templates are predefined Azure Data Factory pipelines that allow you to get started quickly with Data Factory. Templates are esp...

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From automatically delivered weekly digest emails providing insights into how apps are used across the organization to increased control on app sharing.

Dive deeper in our Managed Environments general availability announcement and learn how you can gain more visibility and control over your application ecosystem today.

Welcome to Microsoft Ignite 2022! This year’s event will be a dynamic experience with global in-person and virtual sessions where you can explore amazing new Microsoft products and features that will help you do more with less. Across the Microsoft Cloud and the Power Platform, you’ll discover ground-breaking technology designed to help you get more speed, productivity, and time to focus on what matters while reducing your costs. 

Our new cross-tenant dataset sharing capability is now available in public preview! This exciting capability allows customers to share their Power BI datasets with external users (consumers) in a way that allows these external users to access the datasets in their own Power BI tenant.

We are constantly inspired by all of you and how you use Azure Data Factory for all your data integration needs. Thank you for continuing to share your feedback with us. We love hearing from you and continue to use your input to improve Azure Data Factory.    Many exciting announcements are landing ...

I've blogged twice (here and here) about authentication using the msal Python module. I'm going to cap off this topic with a third and final entry by moving onto the azure-identity module. When I first looked at Azure authentication for the Power BI REST API, I honestly kind of fell into using the msal library first. I found it easy to use and went on to blog about it. Recently, I needed to use the azure-identity module took the time to try it out for getting access tokens to call the Power BI A

Power BI is a powerful tool that has also enabled millions of people worldwide to easily visualize & explore their data. Despite that, inflexibility to the visualization configuration and formatting can make it difficult to fulfill visual requirements. What are some of the biggest feature g

Databricks, Lakes & Parquet are a match made in heaven, but explode with extra power when using Delta Lake. This session will dive into the details of how Da...

Author(s): Arshad Ali and Abid Nazir Guroo are Program Managers in Azure Synapse Customer Success Engineering (CSE) team.   Introduction Data Lakehouse architecture has become the de facto standard for designing and building data platforms for analytics as it bridges the gap and breaks the silos cre...

Recently there has been a lot of buzz on Twitter (at least in my circles) about Azure Data Explorer. Point in case: And I personally have nothing against Azure Data Explorer (ADX), in fact it's a tool I've been using ever since I found out it can be used for free.

Understanding how to work with templates in Deneb

Further reading and external resources for Deneb

We are excited to announce the Public Preview release of our new Power Query SDK for Visual Studio Code!

Missing a trigger in Power Automate for when a Power BI dataset has refreshed? Then check out this workaround.

👂 Heard about Deneb but don't know where to start?💡 Tip for #deneb beginners... How import and export Deneb chart templates in Power BI (4 min)https://t.co/atT49JnwHOWhere to find chart templates in links below 👇#dataviz #Deneb #vega #powerbi— Kerry Kolosko (@KerryKolosko) October 11, 2022

How to get notifications on PnP samples shared on GitHub Power Automate can be used to get notifications for PnP samples shared on GitHub or to get reminded on any commits and pull requests in any of your favorite GitHub repos.

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Many gauge visuals take-up a significant amount of screen real estate, and I wondered if Deneb/Vega-Lite could be used to minimize the required space. Here’s what I came up with: This example uses a number of optional Deneb/Vega-Lite components, including: a title block c/w subtitle a transform block to extend the dataset a layer block with 4 specifications as follows: a bar mark for 100% width background (target) a bar mark for progress width = actual/target; percent) (actual) color = gr...