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A new Admin API to determine user permissions

AD Security Group support is now available for Log Analytics for Premium workspaces. This allows Tenant administrators to control which Workspace admins can use the Log Analytics integration to log activities from their Power BI workspace.

Returns a list of artifacts that the given user have access to (Preview). This API allows 200 requests per hour at maximum.

Power BI offers the ability for users who have access to a dataset in the Power BI service (PowerBI.com) to connect to the dataset using Excel. Normally, this feature is referred to as Analyze in E…

We happily announce Next Gen Premium Platform (Gen2) Generally Available! Optional autoscale charges will begin November 4th 2021

We are pleased to announce the preview availability of our new Unused Artifacts API. The initial version of this API returns a list of datasets that have not been used within 30 days for a specified workspace, and successive revisions will include other artifact types such as reports and dashboards.

If you are looking to grant users in Power BI Read permissions to a dataset, I show you how I did this in my blog post.

We are thrilled to announce some exciting new capabilities for streaming dataflows in Power BI.

We are excited to announce that XMLA endpoints on Premium Per User (PPU) now support Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication with service principals. This authentication option enables administrative applications to perform automated maintenance tasks and unattended service-level operations by using their own app identities, which is often a requirement for migration of existing tabular data models from Azure Analysis Services and SQL Server Analysis Services to Power BI Premium. For technical details, see the article Automate Premium workspace and dataset tasks with service principals in the product documentation.

In this blog post I show how to overcome an error when deploying to Power BI Premium per User when there are incremental partitions created.

On-premises data gateway (standard and personal mode) release for October 2021

Though you can build real-time reports with DirectQuery, push datasets offer a more scalable, economical, and effective solution especially when combined wi

Push datasets are an efficient and inexpensive way to implement real-time updates in Power BI reports and dashboards. They can provide better performance an

Something that got lost in all the excitement around Excel reports connected to Power BI datasets working in Excel Online is the fact that Excel reports connected to the Excel Data Model – ak…

Recent integrations between Azure Purview and Power BI enable greater data agility for organizations of all sizes

Though you can build real-time reports with DirectQuery, push datasets offer a more scalable, economical, and effective solution especially when combined wi

In the 2nd part of the series, learn what Synapse brings to a table for Power BI developers, and how you can leverage both tools to get indefinite number of use-cases!

Power BI dataflows is a nice capability of Power BI. It’s actually not a new Microsoft product. If you use Excel and Power BI long enough, there is a big chance that you’ve already used Power Query …

Back in February, I wrote a blog on how you can trigger a single table to refresh in your Power BI data model. This blog described how you can achieve this goal using a PowerShell script and the AS…

We’re excited to announce new capabilities and improvements for Power BI goals that make it easier than ever to integrate goals into all of your business processes. Learn about the new goals visual, Power Automate integration, goal level permissions, and other experience enhancements.

I’m happy to announce that the Power BI App for Microsoft Teams is Generally Available. Learn about the enhancements to the app, how we’re making it easier to deploy it, and how easy it is to get started using data to make better decisions and take better actions.

I first wrote on this topic way back in March 2019. I love Power BI, and it is one of the most affordable BI products on the market for most companies. If you are a small company of 10 or 20 people, it is dirt cheap at $10 per user [...]Read More »

I was shocked, suddenly important reports were missing from my workspace in Power BI service. But thanks to the help of Mellisa Coates, I was able to make

We’re excited to announce enhancements to the export to Excel experience. Read this blog to learn how these changes help more Excel users use data from Power BI to make decisions.

You can now create reports connected to Power BI datasets from a blank workbook in Excel for the web.

This series start discusses why Power BI Goals are a great fit for those new to Power BI and what three key decisions are needed.

Capacity settings for datasets now in Power BI Premium Gen 2!