Today, we’re pleased to announce the public preview of Power BI Premium Multi-Geo, a new feature that helps multinational organizations address their data residency requirements. Increasingly…
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Currently flying home from a great Microsoft Business Applications Summit in Seattle I wanted to use that time in the plane to write about an interesting topic – the Microsoft Power Platform. Maybe…
Review of new Features coming to Power BI by Oct 2018 – From Business Applications Summit
I was fortunate to attend my first ever Business Applications Summit in Seattle. I had the pleasure of sharing an Airbnb with Matt Allington, Phil Seamark and Miguel Escobar, it was great to spend …
Power BI Home Region: what is it? We look at the home region and look at understanding how it can affect your organization. The Power BI Home region will effect Power BI Premium and could affect your Azure data regions as well. This becomes important when you start looking at Power BI Premium Multi-Geo support […]
In this blog I set out an architecture for a data analytics pipeline that starts with an SQL Server database and ends with a Power BI dashboard. The pipeline can be fully automated so that updates to the data in the core SQL Server DB flow through the pipeline to the dashboard without human intervention...
Using Postman Invoking Azure Resource Management APIs
When working with REST APIs, Postman ( is a popular tool that needs no further introductions. This week, I’ve been pretty busy working on the upcoming Inside OMS V2 book, and I’m currently focusing…
Power BI Embedded : Get Report details API responds with 400 Bad request
Summary : I am working on embedding Power BI reports in a ISV application and when i try to call api endpoint to get embedding details of the report it responds with 400 Bad Request . I am directly
Integrate Power BI into Your Application: Part 1 – Register your App
Power BI Embedded, which I have written about it previously, brings the power of Power BI into your application. Power BI Embedded Recently had major changes. If you remember from my previous post, th…
Integrate Power BI into Your Application: Part 2 – Authenticate
In the part 1, you learned how to register an application to be able to interact with Power BI service and Azure environment. In this part, I’m going to explain what is the process involved after that…
Integrate Power BI into Your Application: Part 3 – Embed Content
In the part 1, you learned how to register an application to be able to interact with Power BI service and Azure environment. In the part 2, you learned how the authentication process works and how yo…
There are two really great features just added to Power BI that I wanted to blog about: Composite models and Dual storage mode. This is part of the July release for Power BI Desktop and it is in p…
The Business Applications October 2018 Release Notes – From a Power BI perspective
During the keynote of the 2018 Microsoft Business Applications Summit, the new version of the Business Applications Release Notes has been publicly shared. After the first appearance of a public roadm…
Business Application Summit and October 2018 Release Notes
The Microsoft Business Applications Summit was last week and, in conjunction with this event, the October 2018 Release Notes were published. Additionally, an updated version (v 2.0) of the Planning…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (July Desktop Update – Admin APIs & PowerShell for Power BI – Multi Geo Support for Power BI Premium – Power BI & SharePoint – On-Premise Gateway Update for July – Developer Update for July)
Since the Business Applications Summit there has been a whole host of updates to Power BI, so please find all the details below. NOTE: This is once again a longer read with just so many updates tha…
Dataflows, previously called Common Data Service for Analytics as well as Datapools, will be in preview soon and I wanted to explain in this blog what it is and how it can help you get value out of…
Power BI DirectQuery: Automatically Refresh Less Than Every 15 Minutes
Power BI is an extremely user friendly and flexible analytics, reporting, and dashboarding tool. In the past two years, I’ve witnessed the massive adoption of Power BI by my clients and in the marketplace, often replacing more expensive tools due to its ease of use and low barrier to entry.
The #PowerBI July on premises gateway release has one more beautiful feature added that i didn't mention in my last update, the ability to DISTRIBUTE requests across your gateway cluster. Previously only 1 node was used for requests and other was only for HA. pic.twitter.com/txoCvogtkF— Steve Howard (@AngryAnalytics) August 3, 2018
Power BI PowerShell and the Admin API | Guy in a Cube
The Power BI PowerShell and the Admin API allow you to quickly inventory your organization and manage workspaces and access. Forget the hastle of setting up the App registration within Azure Active Directory for API access, the Power BI PowerShell cmdlets take care of it for you. Just install and start using today!
Deploying and managing Microsoft Power BI Premium capacities to your entire organization
Join this session to learn how to plan and manage your Premium capacity for your enterprise. Learn what factors to consider in planning your capacity and how to assess your plan through mechanics and best practices. You will use capacity usage metrics to understand the health and diagnose issues with your capacity. This session will feature example scenarios inspired by real customer scenarios.
Enable your team with new workspace experiences (preview) | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI
Today, I’m excited to announce the public preview of a new workspace experience in Power BI. The new workspace experience is designed to enable enterprises to easily manage Power BI content at scale using security groups, distribution lists, and Office 365 Groups. When using the new workspace experiences, you can create App workspaces without creating an underlying Office 365 Group. This blog explains what is changing and how you can plan ahead to be ready.