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Data is most valuable when it leads to informed action. Making it easier for people to get actionable insights is what Power BI is all about. Now, with Power BI Template Apps, users can immediately…

Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 was made generally available on February 7th. In short, ADLS Gen2 is the best of the previous version of ADLS (now called ADLS Gen1) and Azure Blob Storage. ADLS…

This blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI Developers community. Don’t forget to check out our latest developer blog post, if you haven’t done so already. Embedded analytics …

The weekly Power BI Roundup details the latest updates that have happened between 14 - 21 Feb 2019. With Template Apps, Developer update and others

Last week Microsoft released a preview of the Template Apps - A new experience that was designed for partners and ISVs to deliver streamlined analytics to their clients. By now, you should be able to …

How Power BI handles data privacy for cloud or web-based data sources after a dataset has been published, and it prompted yet more revelations…

Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 reached general availability on February 7, 2019. This post will help you understand its advantages and what you need to know to get started.

Technical articles, content and resources for IT Professionals working in Microsoft technologies

Thanks for watching this week’s Power BI news roundup! Last weeks roundup 2 Minute Tuesday Patrick’s tech video Adam’s tech video Sources Show Me the Biggest Number! Conditional Formatting in Power BI (@Rad_Reza) Creating Report Tooltips in Power BI (@HavensConsulti1) Displaying filter context in Power BI Tooltips (@marcorus) Insights made easy with Power BI Template […]

With our February update of Power BI, you can now share, publish and view Python visuals in your reports and dashboards. This update extends the support for Python in the Power BI Desktop to the Power BI service. This ability completes the support for Python in Power BI, enabling you to use Python scripts to … Continue reading “Python visualizations in Power BI Service”

I’m not dead! After having a prolific first few months with this blog, the year-end holidays disrupted my routine, and I’ve been struggling to get everything balanced again. 2019 has be…

The weekly Power BI RoundUp from FourMoo talks about the Python visuals, Power BI Premium White paper and tailoring help when usiing Power BI

As you build your Power BI reports, you may want to use maps and custom visuals. Have you thought about data privacy and what data is getting shared by those visuals? If you have sensitive data in …

Adam looks at the different sharing and collaboration items within Power BI. From the share button to apps and embedding options. Power BI offers many options.

Power Bi Service Dataflows is still underestimated. It is a revolution in Power BI and allows to perform your own data refresh logic, even the incremental refresh for some cases

We are happy to announce that we have just released the February update for the On-premises data gateway (version 3000.1.257) This month’s Gateway update includes an updated version of the Mashup Engine, which matches the … Continue reading “On-premises data gateway February update is now available”

We are happy to announce that we have just released the February update for the On-premises data gateway (version 3000.1.257) This month’s Gateway update includes an updated version of the Mashup Engine, which matches the … Continue reading “On-premises data gateway February update is now available”

In modern BI projects, understanding the flow of data from the data source to its destination, and understanding the data transformation done along the way, is a key challenge for many customers. This challenge becomes even bigger if you have built advanced analytical projects spanning multiple data sources, artifacts, and dependencies. Questions like “What happens … Continue reading “Power BI data lineage experience for dataflows”

Microsoft released the new Template Apps recently, and I am extremely happy to share my first App with you. It is publicly available on Microsoft AppSource. You can now explore Power BI Custom visuals via my Power BI Template App, and share it with your end-users in your organization for free from here. Do you …

This post contains a PowerShell script that triggers a refresh process for three Power BI datasets. Additionally, this script is called/executed as part of automated processes via SQL Server Agent …

In the last post, the process of using Cognitive services Text analytics has been presented. In this post, I will show how to user pre-built AI using some predefined machine learning algorithms in Power BI Service in Data flow. I will follow the same example I show in the Azure ML Studio and Power…

With sophisticated models and scalable compute, Artificial Intelligence becomes a realistic tool for data analysts. Power BI helps you get insights from your data. Now, with access to a set of models from Azure Cognitive Services and your custom models in Azure ML, you can easily enrich those insights with AI. Cognitive services in Power BI gives you access … Continue reading “Easy access to AI in Power BI (Preview)”

In modern BI projects, understanding the flow of data from the data source to its destination is a key challenge for many customers.

We are happy to announce the General Availability (GA) of Multi Geo for Power BI Premium! With Multi Geo going GA, you can extend your Power BI tenant to store your users’ data in the geographies covered in the Microsoft Trust Center, except for Power BI Germany, Power BI China operated by 21Vianet or Power … Continue reading “Announcing Power BI Multi Geo General Availability”

Today, we’re excited to announce that Power BI is making it easier for Azure AD B2B Guest users to collaborate with colleagues across organizational boundaries. Rolling out to production this week is a new capability that allows external Guest users to edit and manage content in workspaces, get the full home experience, and to do … Continue reading “Azure AD B2B Guest users can now edit and manage content in Power BI to collaborate better across organizations”