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Back in September of last year, we announced dashboard commenting in Power BI. Since then, we’ve seen thousands of you leverage this feature to collaborate with colleagues and start discussions within your organization. Today, I’m excited to announce that we are bringing the same commenting capability to Power BI reports! With report commenting, you can … Continue reading “Announcing Report Commenting for Power BI Service and Mobile”

Last week I delivered two online sessions on the topic of integrating Power BI dataflows with an organizational Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 storage account. I’ve blogged on this topic before…

We are happy to announce that we have just released the May update for the On-premises data gateway (version 3000.5.185). Here are some of the things that we would like to highlight with this month…

I have written previously about the use cases of Dataflow in Power BI, and one of them was using one Power Query table in multiple Power BI reports. However, I that article just covered the surface, a…

Find out what are the hardware, operating system and software requirements to install .NET Framework 4.5 and later versions.

A new feature for monitoring the On-premises data gateway was made available for public preview in last week’s release of the May 2019 update. Per the blog post announcement, this feature is …

Which feature should you use to transform data in Azure Data Factory? Find your answer by comparing Mapping and Wrangling Data Flows :)

April was packed full of new capabilities for Power BI. Thank you for the ongoing support and feedback – we couldn’t have done it without you. Here’s a quick rundown of everything we announced last month: Power BI dataflows GA Q&A update for dashboards New workspaces experience GA Paginated Report Builder New Power BI regions … Continue reading “Power BI Service and Mobile April 2019 feature summary”

Thanks for watching this week’s Power BI news roundup! Last weeks roundup: https://guyinacu.be/roundup137 2 Minute Tuesday: https://guyinacu.be/multiselecttitles Patrick’s tech video: https://guyinacu…

Using Power BI is simple, however, using it properly, needs a good architecture. In a multi-developer tenant, the architecture of a Power BI implementation should allow multiple developers to work on …

The 4th part of the blog series covers what happens when Row Level Security is applied to a Power BI Premium report and if there is any effect.

Now that tax season is over, are you ready to see how your contributions are helping the government run? As it did in 2017 and 2018, USAFacts published a 10-K Report using Microsoft Power BI to show a comprehensive view of US federal, state and local governments’ revenues and expenditures. The not-for-profit, non-partisan institute—funded by former Microsoft … Continue reading “Through Power BI, USAFacts Explores Government Financial Data In Latest Report”

One of the primary reasons people go to conferences is to meet the presenters. At the Microsoft Business Applications Summit and the Microsoft presenters we have an entire “Ask the Experts” experience to make this easy. For community presenters we have created a community lounge and will be schedu...

Microsoft Business Applications Summit June 10 – 11 in Atlanta, Georgia is almost here and you have one more reason to attend year…A chance to meet the community super stars. We know, one of the pr…

An exploration of embedding files in a Power BI dataset, I got the idea when I was doing some reading about Power BI, stumbled upon an artice about embedding images at this link: https://sqljason.com/2018/01/embedding-images-in-power-bi-using-base64.html which made me think about coupling files, or ...

We’re excited to announce the release of new app navigation experiences that give reporting teams the power to customize navigation for end users, so they can find content quickly and understand the relationships between different reports and dashboards. We’ve also sprinkled in several important new features to help app authors create supportable apps that delight … Continue reading “Designing custom navigation for Power BI apps is now available”

Detailed explanation as to what you pay for when you are using Power BI Premium, as well as to why it is different from Power BI Pro

Dozens of Power BI visuals come out-of-the box with Power BI Desktop. These visuals are available in the visualizations’ pane when you create or edit Power BI content. These visuals are just the beginning of the available options to help you tell your data story. Learn about the variety of options you get with Power BI visuals and how to manage them in your organization.

This is the first blog post dedicated to Analysis Services on the Power BI blog. As discussed in this post on the old Analysis Services team blog, Microsoft is moving off MSDN and TechNet blogs. We have made it clear that Power BI will be a one-stop shop for both enterprise and self-service BI on … Continue reading “What’s new for SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services CTP 3.0”

Weekly Power BI RoundUp where it covers all the latest Power BI details over the past week including this week the release of Power BI Deskop for May 2019

(2019-May- 24) Data Flow as a data transformation engine has been introduced to the Microsoft Azure Data Factory (ADF) last year as a priv...

“New Feature Friday” returns for the latest feature update for Paginated Reports. We’ve just rolled out support for five new attachment options for your e-mail subscriptions in Power BI. In addition to PDF, you can now choose one of the following new attachment types for your subscription(s) – PowerPoint presentation (PPTX) Excel Workbook (XLSX) Word … Continue reading “Enhanced Attachment Support for Paginated Reports E-Mail Subscriptions is Now Available”

Last month Microsoft announced on the Power BI blog an exciting new capability: AUTOMATION & LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT ‘Refresh Now’ API provides unlimited data refresh for Power BI Embedded and Po…

Thanks for watching this week’s Power BI news roundup! Last weeks roundup: https://guyinacu.be/roundup139 Tech Video: https://guyinacu.be/time Sources Power BI – Dynamic TopN + Others with Drill-Down (@gbrueckl) Reviewing the Performance Analyzer in Power BI (@HavensBI) Power BI Report Server May 2019 Feature Summary How to govern Power BI visuals inside your organization Designing custom navigation […]

As I have discussed in part 1 and Part 2, the new possibility of creating machine learning without writing any Python or R codes is so amazing. In Part One, the difference between Azure ML Studio (the traditional one) and the Azure ML Services (new component) has been very briefly explained. (I will write…

See how to create and use App Navigation in Power BI. You can control the navigation area when publishing Power BI Apps. Even include external content with your apps!

If you were looking to upgrade a Power BI model to Analysis Services Tabular, hopefully you decided to do it before March 1, 2019, that was the day Microsoft decided to remove the tool from Azure. …

This change will make Tenant level administration available for PBI service admins

Get ready for the imminent release of Shared and Certified datasets in Power BI! In the coming days we will start rolling out the public preview of a set of capabilities across the Power BI service…

The weekly Power BI Roundup, where in this weeks roundup I go through the updates to Paginated reports which shows different attachment types