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This week’s Power BIte is the second in a series of videos[1] that present different ways to create new Power BI dataflows, and the results of each approach. When creating a dataflow by defin…

We are excited to announce new data protection capabilities in Power BI that build on Microsoft’s strengths in security and enable customers to empower every user with Power BI and better protect their data no matter how or where it is accessed. Classify and label sensitive Power BI data using the familiar Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels used in Office. Enforce governance policies even when Power BI content is exported to Excel, PowerPoint, or PDF, to help ensure data is protected even when it leaves Power BI. Monitor and protect user activity on sensitive data in real t...

Over the past few weeks we have released several new features in Dataflows, allowing users to seamlessly ingest and prepare data that can be widely reused by other users across the Power Platform including lots of new Data Connectors, Data Transformations and other Power Query Online authoring enhancements.

This blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI embedded analytics and Power BI visuals platform

Soon you’ll be able to upgrade classic workspace to the new workspace experience. This post gives you resources to learn about the upgrade before it becomes available to your users and to be prepared.

Professionalize your PowerBI deployment! Start using versioning, continuous integration and continuous development with Azure DevOps.

I recently found out the SSAS team added new trace information to Azure Log analytics. The new information allows you to find out the report and dataset in Power BI...

Over two years ago I published a blog and document with a feature matrix comparing modeling features of the different releases of Analysis Services Tabular and Multidimensional. At that time, the T…

Earlier this year I published a few posts describing approaches for retrieving Power BI artifacts via PowerShell scripts. As a Power BI administrator, the scheduled retrieval of this data could bec…

At Ignite 2019, Microsoft outlined its vision to continue extending Power BI’s enterprise capabilities. Even with Power BI Premium, deploying Power BI in an organization often means working around concerns such as model size limitations, vague deployment procedures, and more.

In this blog post below, I am going to show you how to configure the Load Balancing with CPU and Memory. I always recommend for On-Premise Data Gateway installations that there be at least 2 Gateways installed. The initial reason was to ensure that if...

At this point I’ve said “Power BI dataflows enable reuse” enough times that I feel like a broken record[1]. What does this phrase actually mean, and how can you take advantage of …

We’ve started to roll-out the capability upgrade classic workspace to the new workspace experience as a Public Preview. This post gives you resources to learn about the upgrade before it becomes available to your users and to be prepared. It also answers questions from our pre-release blog and documentation.

Last month[1] at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit (MBAS), Power BI program managers David Magar and Swati Gupta showed off a new load assessment tool for Power BI Premium capacity workloa…

This week’s Power BIte is the third in a series of videos[1] that present different ways to create new Power BI dataflows, and the results of each approach. When creating a dataflow by import…

On-premises data gateway November release

What is a Gateway? An on-premises data gateway is software that you install in an on-premises network. The gateway facilitates access to data in that network. If you have installed the gateway already and are looking forward to updating it to the current version released by Microsoft, then this se...

In this Power BI webinar, we learn about creating agile metrics and see some of the reporting capabilities when we connect Power Bi Desktop to data flows using parameters and functions to populate entities.

It’s time to recap all the features and announcements we made for the Power BI service and mobile for the months of October and November.

In this article, we will see how we can use the self-referencing technique and Dataflows to create incremental refresh with PowerBI Pro version. This technique is tested and working both with cloud and on-premises data sources. In case you are using on-premise data sources to access new data, you need to add on-premise source in the Enterprise gateway prior to the creation of dataflows....

In the first part of this series I talked about why you might want to test the performance of a Power BI report in the browser, as opposed to using Performance Analyzer in Power BI Desktop, and the…

Puzzled when to use Power BI Premium vs Azure Analysis Services? Power BI Premium is where future investments will be made but there are things to consider when making a choice.

I get many questions around Power BI and security related features. Users and customers often don’t realize that most of their requirements can actually be solved by AAD. Power BI...

The enhanced compute engine in Power BI dataflows has been in preview since June. It’s not really new, and I’ve posted about it before. But I still keep hearing questions about it, so I…

Introduction Power BI has been around for a number of years now, however, it’s only in the last couple of years that it’s started to gain heavy use in organizations across the world. Many of us now have access to many reports in a large number of workspaces, and there are a number of challenges t...

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We love hearing feedback from the Power BI community!  Today, we have another bi-annual survey to keep improving Power BI (both Desktop and Service) with your feedback.

In part 1 of this series I talked about why you might want to test the performance of your Power BI report in the browser; in part 2 I showed how you could test report performance in the browser; a…

Today, the new look for Power BI Mobile is generally available (GA) and becomes the default look for all users. You no longer need to turn the new look on in the app settings (and, you also can’t turn it off). So, now when you open Power BI mobile app, you’ll land on the new home page, where you can easily find and access the most recent and frequent items you usually use in Power BI.