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Muti-tasking with the Power BI app in Teams is getting even better. Read the blog to learn how caching and take you back improve the experiences and keep you productive.

New! Users can now generate a link to chart from organizational app and use it in PowerPoint. This newly added feature allows users to infuse data and insights from org app charts into their presentations and work with smart insights, filters, and live data.

A comprehensive guide to Direct Lake datasets, one question at a time

Power BI sometimes tries to refresh a dataset again if the first attempt fails

Working with many companies that implement Power BI, this is a question that comes along every single time; Should we enable workspace creation for all our users, or limit it to a specific security…

Introducing data model editing in the web! A first step towards modeling parity in the Service.

You can pin your workspaces on top of the list. And unpin them anytime as needed. This functionality enables you to easily navigate to the workspaces that are most relevant to you without searching through the workspace list.

Learn about Power BI Deployment pipelines, what they are, why do you need them, how they work, and how to set them up.

In this blog post I explain how to use Power Automate and using an HTTPS URL to refresh a Power BI Dataset with email notification.

General availability for the additional Analysis Services settings for workspaces in Power BI.

Top 5 tips for improving performance of hierarchies in Power BI Metrics

It is a standing joke in the analytics industry that “Export to Excel” is the most used feature of any analytics application. And while most analysts can

The Power BI app for Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and Office is getting updated multi-tasking experiences to help users complete their tasks faster. Read the blog for all the details.

Welcome to the February 2023 updates on Power BI Datamarts. This month, we’ve added a variety of new features based on your votes on ideas.powerbi.com. There’s more to explore, as well as a sneak peek of what’s coming soon, so please read on!

We are excited to announce significant query processing improvements in the Power BI engine around query parallelization in DirectQuery mode, which can help to accelerate query response times, specifically for DAX and MDX expressions that generate multiple storage engine (SE) queries.

We are happy to announce the general availability of Power BI integration with PowerPoint. This integration makes presentations more engaging and informative by allowing users to create rich, interactive visualizations that can be embedded in PowerPoint slides. The is now available also in national clouds. The integration has also added new features such as the ability to use a single visual, leverage Smart Insights to generate text that summarizes the data in the slide, and a “What’s new” banner to keep users informed of new capabilities.

Following our last announcement in August of launching the Public Preview of Multiple Audiences for Power BI org apps, we are excited to share that this feature is now generally available! With this, the multiple audience feature will now be supported by Power BI Mobile.

Case I want to send streaming data to Power BI for reporting purposes. What should I take into account when choosing the right architecture...

From time to time I got asked how customers can export Paginated (or Power BI) Reports automatically to store them e.g. in OneDrive or any other location. One way is obviously to do it manually, bu…

Back in August 2022, Microsoft released a feature to have multiple audiences for Power BI Apps, or if you will deploying multiple versions of the same app where you can actively show and hide conte…

Learn about Power BI workspaces, what they are, how they can be managed and used for sharing content with their pros and cons.

Welcome to the January 2023 updates on Power BI Datamarts. This month, we’ve added a variety of new features based on your votes on ideas.powerbi.com. There’s more to explore, as well as a sneak peek of what’s coming soon, so please read on!

No Premium - no problem! What do you do if client asks for performance optimization, and there are no premium features available? You improvize and win!

This blog post shows how to setup and configure Power BI Premium/Premium Per User datasets to be backed up.

Now you can embed entire Power BI organizational apps in Microsoft Teams tabs. By adding Org apps in channels and meetings, you enable everyone to access the data they need.

Thanks to the latest backup and restore improvements, you can now restore a backup file even when the dataset size is near the Power BI Premium SKU limitation. You no longer need to be concerned that dataset size limits impact restorability. When restoring a dataset with the /forceRestore option, Power BI will try its best to perform the restore operation even when the available memory is limited.

New year, new features! We are excited to announce the general availability of the Viva Goals Power BI integration and three new Metrics features specifically answering common customer asks. A new, optional column for milestones, scorecard time zones, and a handy auto collapse / auto expand feature.

If you run into an error when restoring a #PowerBI dataset in Premium, in this blog post I show you how to successfully restore the backup.

In the previous articles of the Mastering DP-500 series, we’ve explained what happens when you hit the Publish button in Power BI Desktop. Assuming that you’re not using a Live connection mode, once …