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Thanks for watching this week’s Power BI news roundup! Last weeks roundup: https://guyinacu.be/roundup140 Tech Video: https://guyinacu.be/appnav Sources Power BI Governance – Approve/Reject all datase…

I use a lot of variables to detect the date ranges. If a visual is filtered to one day, like 6/10/2019, the measure will show "20190610". If a full month, like June of 2019, it shows "201906". If one year, it would be "2019". It can also do multiple years 2019-2025, or multiple months: 202011-202103.

This blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI embedded analytics and Custom Visuals.

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Navigation Builder is a solid new feature for Power BI Service that enables a customized app experience for viewers. Read about this feature and the entire app navigation r…

The Paginated Reports team closes out May with another “New Feature Friday” blog post announcing one of the biggest enhancements to e-mail subscriptions in Power BI to date. With today’s update, Paginated Reports users can set up an e-mail subscription for themselves and their colleagues and choose the parameter values they wish to use for …

We have added AI metrics to complete the suite of workload metrics available in the Power BI Premium capacity metrics app (version 1.10.1.7), making it a one stop shop for admins.

At Microsoft we are lucky in that our IT organization has made acquiring Power BI Pro licenses very easy. But our internal teams still need the features of the new capacity offering, like larger d…

Last February Microsoft announced that its possible to authenticate with service principal. This allows you to perform operations on the REST API without an actual user account (master account) or …

A quick walkthrough of how we’ve put this together for DSPT Day awesome event.

We’re almost halfway through the year and what a great start it’s been to 2019! The Power BI team continued to deliver some of the most anticipated features in the month of May. We were also heads down planning for the Microsoft Business Applications Summit, where we look forward to connecting with many of you there next week!

June gateway release

Azure empowers you with the most advanced machine learning capabilities to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy your machine learning models using Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML). Power BI lets you visually explore and analyze your data. In this post we will see how we have made it easy to ...

As we kick off the Microsoft Business Application Summit with our amazing community at Atlanta, I wanted to share some exciting Power BI news as part of the event, including the June release …

We’re happy to announce that the Power BI Mobile iOS app is now integrated with Siri shortcuts. Now, you’ll be able to just say “Hey Siri, open my report” and you’ll get the content you’re lo…

This blog post details all the features and annoucements from the Microsoft Business Applications Summit where all the new Power BI Details were revealed

We had to wait four years but here they are: Power BI shared datasets are here. This makes it a good time to revisit the remaining Power BI sharing limitations, which I listed in my previous blog on t…

Our next publich traning session will be in Vancouver this July. This 3-day Self Service BI Boot Camp will change your company's reporting game forever!

Template app general availability announcement and latest features

Level: Intermediate There was an announcement made a few weeks ago by Microsoft that nearly slipped under my radar. I don’t always read the more technical announcements because I don’t…

Today, we’re announcing general availability (GA) for cognitive services, Azure ML and the AI workload in Power BI Premium. The AI workload will now be enabled by default for all P-nodes, as well as nodes A3/EM3 and above, allowing the users of those capacities to use cognitive services in dataflows right away. A new workload setting is added to separately enable Automated ML, which remains in public preview.

Based on the technology used in SQL Server Reporting Services, Paginated Reports brings a new set of enterprise reporting capabilities to the Power BI service. It enables developers and BI professionals to create and distribute highly formatted, pixel-perfect reports right alongside their interactive Power BI content, becoming the first cloud BI solution that combines the power of self-service BI with the needs and capabilities of traditional Enterprise BI scenarios.

This blog post details how to embed a word document into the new app experience in Power BI and enable people to view data online

This post is to make you aware that there are some serious downsides when you choose to create reports in the Power BI Service rather than Power BI Desktop. If you agree with me on this one, please vote for this idea here on the Power BI Ideas site . The Short Version of the Story I always recom

“Who, or what, is Paginated Report Bear?” I hear you ask. Well, he’s the breakout social media star of 2019, a furry YouTube sensation whose incisive interviews of members of the Power BI developme…

Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) preview available

As a Power BI admin, particularly when you’re responsible for a large deployment with many teams using the Power BI service in different ways, you want to put yourself in a position to easily…

Last week Microsoft held its annual Microsoft Business Applications Summit (MBAS) event in Atlanta. This two-day technical conference covers the whole Business Applications platform – includi…

The Microsoft Busines Application Summit (MBAS) for 2019 was quite the event. There was so much great content. Check out our highlights from this year.

The Microsoft Business Application Summit is behind us but that doesn’t mean there’s a lot of content we can share with the community. We recorded almost every session on site, and we made th…