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Announcing new features for Power BI Goals, including automated status rules and improved filtering.

Expanded availability of Power BI and Excel features to Power BI Free license users

A fortune 500 pharmaceutical company is using Power BI to revolutionize strategic planning. The company worked with Microsoft partner, Visual BI, to implement their ValQ capability. Read this customer story to learn more about the company’s solution.

This blog post shows how to integrate the Report Names into the Power BI Log Analytics report so that it shows more meaningful data.

I’m happy to update that during September we are modifying the preview release, specifically lifting the 50 exports per hour per capacity limit. More details inside.

Our upcoming State and Local Power BI Community Call will focus on administrative scripts that can be used for lightweight management of your Power BI environment. This will be a script heavy session …

Paradigm BI Posts - Paradigm BI and Active Business Intelligence Updates - Power BI can become a closed garden for Excel users, but what if we use WorkFlows to expose the data?

One of the most challenging aspects of developing your own application is adding reporting capabilities. Power BI Embedded gives you the ability to include the capabilities of Power BI while hosting the reports in your application.  This post provides a curated resource guide.

Using PowerBI Dataflow to share data between departments is increasingly getting more popular, with the rise of managed self service offering, it is not unusual to find a non centralised Data wareh…

We’re pre-announcing a new capability to help organizations automatically install the Power BI app for Microsoft Teams for active users of the Power BI service. A new Power BI admin tenant setting is starting to roll-out allowing Power BI admins to control automatic installation. Automatic installation will start occurring in November 2021 for organizations with the setting enabled.

The Insights feature helps users easily explore and find insights such as anomalies, trends in their data as they interact and consume their reports.

We’re excited to share that the Power BI embedded analytics playground just got some new updates, including the ability to embed a report using your own embed token in the developer sandbox!

On-premises data gateway release for September 2021

I show how you can change the contact information for each report within a Power BI App Workspace to show contact details

A new Admin API to determine user permissions

AD Security Group support is now available for Log Analytics for Premium workspaces. This allows Tenant administrators to control which Workspace admins can use the Log Analytics integration to log activities from their Power BI workspace.

Returns a list of artifacts that the given user have access to (Preview). This API allows 200 requests per hour at maximum.

Power BI offers the ability for users who have access to a dataset in the Power BI service (PowerBI.com) to connect to the dataset using Excel. Normally, this feature is referred to as Analyze in E…

We happily announce Next Gen Premium Platform (Gen2) Generally Available! Optional autoscale charges will begin November 4th 2021

We are pleased to announce the preview availability of our new Unused Artifacts API. The initial version of this API returns a list of datasets that have not been used within 30 days for a specified workspace, and successive revisions will include other artifact types such as reports and dashboards.

If you are looking to grant users in Power BI Read permissions to a dataset, I show you how I did this in my blog post.

We are thrilled to announce some exciting new capabilities for streaming dataflows in Power BI.

We are excited to announce that XMLA endpoints on Premium Per User (PPU) now support Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication with service principals. This authentication option enables administrative applications to perform automated maintenance tasks and unattended service-level operations by using their own app identities, which is often a requirement for migration of existing tabular data models from Azure Analysis Services and SQL Server Analysis Services to Power BI Premium. For technical details, see the article Automate Premium workspace and dataset tasks with service principals in the product documentation.

In this blog post I show how to overcome an error when deploying to Power BI Premium per User when there are incremental partitions created.

On-premises data gateway (standard and personal mode) release for October 2021

Though you can build real-time reports with DirectQuery, push datasets offer a more scalable, economical, and effective solution especially when combined wi

Push datasets are an efficient and inexpensive way to implement real-time updates in Power BI reports and dashboards. They can provide better performance an

Something that got lost in all the excitement around Excel reports connected to Power BI datasets working in Excel Online is the fact that Excel reports connected to the Excel Data Model – ak…