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As development continues on ADLS gen2, Power BI now has a beta connector available. This can be found in the Azure folder of the Get Data Experience To connect to your storage account, you will nee…

When connecting to Analysis Services from Power BI Desktop which is from outside of your domain this can be quite a challenge

August release of Gateway

A brand new product by Microsoft called Azure Data Share was recently announced. It is in public preview. To explain the product in short, any data which resides in Azure storage can be securely sh…

As we rolled out the preview of Shared Datasets and the new Build permission, we received feedback that our limitations on export of summarized data from a visual are overly restrictive. We are adjusting our approach based on your feedback. Specifically, we will allow users with the Read permission to export summarized data from a visual. 

Today, I am thrilled to announce the release of custom branding for the Power BI service. Now you can change the look and feel of the Power BI service to match your corporate theme with just a few clicks!

Patrick looks at how you can use DAX Studio, or SQL Profiler, to do query profiling on Power BI Premium. This can help you debug query performance and more.

Adam look at Power BI build permissions with shared datasets. Taking the mystery out of how you can interact with datasets and know what to do if you can’t use it. This also looks at how Power BI free users can use shared datasets with Power BI Premium.

Back in April of this year Microsoft announced the rollout of a new Viewer role in Power BI workspaces. It is mentioned in the release note...

“New Feature Friday” returns as we’re thrilled to introduce support for URL parameters for paginated reports in the Power BI service. 

Today, we’re excited to announce the public preview of the “new look” now available on Power BI Mobile.  We’ve refreshed our app and introduced new experiences, adding a home page that p…

In 2019-May release of Power BI on-premises gateway, it has introduced a new feature called Gateway Performance Monitoring. Power BI team has given this feature so that now you can monitor query ac…

This blog post shows how to use the Power BI On-Premise Data Gateway to stream data immediately instead of having to wait for it to start streaming

Since the release of Power BI Template Apps, more than 50 new apps have joined the marketplace. It’s about time we would be able to search for template apps in a new way – in our own Power BI report that can be installed as a Template App – and not just by searching for …

We are excited to announce new improvements to Power BI dataflows releasing this month including non-admin gateway support and further improvements to the enhanced compute engine. We also have released a new best practices guide for dataflows to help you make the best use of the new enhanced compute engine.

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

Adam breaks down v-core pooling with Power BI Premium. Explaining where the v-cores come from and how creating a Power BI Premium node affects the v-core pool.

Here’s a quick recap of all the features and announcements in the monthly of August.

Learn how to work with Power BI files (PBIX) inside SharePoint. There are a number of suggesstions to make your experince a pleasant one. Read Here.

Welcome back to another “New Feature Friday” for Paginated Reports in the Power BI service.  We’re pleased to announce three new features rolling out around paginated reports.

With data lakes becoming popular, and Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 being used for many of them, a common question I am asked about is “How can I access data in ADLS Gen2 instead of a cop…

We’re thrilled to introduce template apps update capability! From now on, after downloading and connecting a template app from AppSource every Power BI Pro or Premium user can update the app while preserving the connection configuration.

Adam looks at how you can get your gateway working with Power BI dataflows, even if you aren’t an admin of the gateway. There is one thing that most people overlook. We show you what it is!

While the documentation on how to import data from Azure Data Lake Gen2 Storage into Power BI is pretty detailed, the connector (which at the time of writing is in beta) that supports this function…

When you have 100 reports.... When you have a lot of dimention.... When you have thousands of entities, If you need to query the entire system, to understand: where does the data come from? which entities are read? which "job" is launched? Is the call manual or timed? Entity XXX, which Factabl...

Best practices for Power BI dataflows

If you’re a frequent reader of this blog, or a frequent user of Power BI dataflows, you probably know these things already: Power BI dataflows are workspace-level objects in the Power BI serv…

This post started as a response to this question from Mark, who was commenting on last week’s data lineage post: How would you decide how big or how small to make each artifact in the lineage…

Power BI dataflows have included capabilities for data lineage since they were introduced in preview way back in 2018. The design of dataflows, where each entity is defined by the Power Query that …