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We are pleased to announce that the ability to export your Power BI reports to PowerPoint is now generally available

I am happy to announce that Custom and Certified Connectors in Power BI are now generally available!OverviewAfter delivering the Power BI extensibility framework, our incredible community has…

Here is my weekly Power BI related round up, I hope that you find this information relevant and keeps you up to date with everything that is happening with regards to Power BI. Power BI – Webinar o…

I had seen some questions in the Power BI Community when asking how to run reports or dashboards in a browser screen so that they cannot see they buttons on the bottom left hand side. In my example…

I have been holding on to a copy of Satya Nadella’s book “Hit Refresh” for quite some time. With all the Power BI goodness, the [...]

At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Power BI makes it possible for every employee in an organization to make better decisions bas…

This simple and brief article is about Incremental Refresh setup in Power BI. By the end of this article, you will know more about incremental refresh, its advantages and setup process. What is incremental refresh? Incremental refresh is a feature in Power BI premium which enables more reliable,...

Dataset size and dataset count in memory are now available in the app

Today marks the 20th birthday of Analysis Services: it was released (as OLAP Services) on November 16th 1998. There’s a celebratory blog post and video over on the Power BI blog here: I’m one of th…

Warehousing SharePoint data has been a need that has been with us for a long time. Power BI dataflows finally provide a reliable way to solve this need.

Unlock all of the power of Power Query in Power BI dataflows

We are happy to announce that we have just released the November update for the On-premises data gateway (version 3000.0.155.1) &…

Since the Eagles game doesn’t start until later, thought I’d put this together for folks. As many of you know, earlier this month we announced a preview of Paginated Reports in Power BI. While fol…

CDS for Apps VS Power Query – is there a difference? If so, what is that difference? Are they mutually exclusive or complement each other?

DBAs can use PowerShell cmdlets to manage Power BI workloads. Learn how the Power BI-PowerShell combination provides an efficient way to manage data sets, workspaces and Power BI reports.

Currently it is not possible to implement user impersonation in an embedded Power BI Report Server. However, like in most scenarios, there are workarounds..

A few weeks ago I wrote an article introducing dataflows in Power BI and discussed why you should care about them. There are a few questions that have been spinning around in my head since then, s…

In this blog I would like to cover how you can automatically load all Power BI activity data into a database for detailed analysis across different workspaces. We are realizing this using and Azure fu…

In this week’s episode of Insight Quest, Brett, a BI consultant from Frontline Analytics, has been assigned tasks related to the programmatic management of Azure Analysis Services and Power B…

Here is my weekly roundup, and whilst it has not been as busy as the past few weeks, there are still some awesome updates. Power BI – Help Shape the Future of Power BI I always think it is really i…

Are Power BI dataflows a master data management tool? This guy really wants to know. Spoiler alert: No. They are not. When Microsoft first announced dataflows[1] were coming to Power BI earlier thi…

In case you don’t agree with this guy from that meme, you should go to ideas.powerbi.com to let the dataflows team know what you think, and why. The “ideas” site is a feature voti…

There are two common misconceptions that I see related to Power BI dataflows and Power BI Premium. This goal of this post is to dispel both of them. Misconception #1: Power BI dataflows are a Premi…

It’s been two weeks since Power BI dataflows became publicly available in preview, and there’s been a flood of interest and excitement as people have started exploring and using this ne…

You might know that we can connect Excel to Power BI using “Analyze in Excel” feature. If this is something new for you – check out following video (3 min) By default, after click…

This is a question that comes up all the time. Power BI licensing is not complicated but a common challenge is that the person who sets up a new Power BI subscription and tenant within an organiza…