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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…

This article is the first of a series dedicated to calculation groups in DAX. This introduction explains the capabilities of this feature and how to create

<p>We are happy to announce a significant update to the Data Table control coming this week. This includes the updated field selection, Text property allowing formatting and calculated val…

By using dataflows you can separate refresh schedules. But probably you want to inform your end-users about the last successful refresh time as well. In this blog I'm explaining how to get one overvie…

Template app general availability announcement and latest features

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Thanks for watching this week’s Power BI news roundup! Last roundup: https://guyinacu.be/roundup141repost Last tech video: https://guyinacu.be/paginatedupdate Sources Announcing New AI and Enterprise …

Power Query is the easiest way to connect, extract, transform and load data from a wide range of sources

Recently I found I needed to remove all the HTML tags from some text in Power Query. I searched and found a great – if complex – function from Marcel Beug here, but I realised that since that post was…

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The June 2019 update for Power BI included a few updates for conditional formatting, for visual backgrounds, titles, cards and gauges. This post is my take on the updates and on how I prefer to do the…

There is always a need to extend the usage of visuals in Power BI. There are multi ways to do it first using First Option: Using Standard Panel Easy to use and available all the time all tested and re…

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…

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’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…

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 …

Hopefully, you are either enjoying the start of the Microsoft Business Applications Summit or watching all the exciting news and announcements on social media! To go along with all those othe…

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 ...

June gateway release

Post describing the update to ColorValue to include transparency and the addition of transparent colour.

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!

When you use Nintex workflows and you are considering to switch to Flow. Or when you use Flow and want to switch to Nintex it can be difficult to make the right choices. In this series of posts I a…

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

A lot of times people ask me why Power BI is the best BI platform in the world (which by the way it is :)) and I always tell them that if you evaluate by the feature: VisualizationData transformati…

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 …

The folks over at tyGraph have put together a Power BI report for Twitter activity at the Business Application Summit. If you want to track the tweets that are happening surrounding the event, this is a great Power BI report to watch. The report is refreshed every hour (limitation of the Publish to Web […]

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…

The Common Data Model (CDM) is a shared data model that is a place to keep all common data to be shared between applications and data sources. Another way to think of it is is a way to organi…

Introducing the JSON function for generating JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) within a canvas app. Use it to share data with systems and APIs that require JSON. You can also this function to encode and export images in base64 for the first time. And we also added two small features: #rrggbbaa notation and Color.Transparent.

Everyone who has experimented with Google voice dialogs might experience that there is no out of the box way to connect the Google dialogs with automation software. There are a lot of programming opportunities in Dialogflow, but building a automation solution without coding seems to be difficult. I ...