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In the last few weeks I've seen a spike in questions related to the integration of Power BI dataflows and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. Here's a quick "status check" on the current state of this featu…

This is a short story of how I ruined one of my Power BI Desktop files. Luckily I stored it on SharePoint where I have versioning enabled, so I could restore a working version. In that Power BI rep…

To kick off July, we’ve dropped the latest update to Power BI Report Builder in the download center. It includes, for the first time, the ability to browse your Power BI workspaces and …

As a Power BI service admin, do you frequently need to list all workspaces in your tenant, and all reports, dashboards, and datasets in those workspaces as well? If the answer is yes, you pro…

We’re two weeks post-GA of Paginated Reports in Power BI, and we wanted let you know about several updates we’ve made since then

The viewer role for Power BI App Workspaces is now available! Now, let’s look at Power BI Apps vs. App Workspaces and have a discussion around which is the better way to go for content distribution in…

Thanks for watching this week’s Power BI news roundup! Last weeks roundup: https://guyinacu.be/roundup143 Tech Video: https://guyinacu.be/shareddatasets Source Showing only slicer data that have facts…

Let’s take a look at the new shared and certified datasets feature in Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service. This opens up a lot of possibilities and helps to reduce data silos.

I have written a long time ago about sharing a Power BI dataset between reports, in an article written when the feature announced first. Nowadays, if you are in the world of Power BI, you heard a lot …

This blog talks about the recently enabled feature “Multiple data source definitions to the same data source”

By This blog post explains how the REST API can be used to prepare the Power BI Inventory Report. On this inventory report, we can show below items which almost covered all the contents from Power BI.…

Navigating from a Power BI report to an SSRS Paginated report with filters and parameters. This recipe primarily involves Power BI report design techniques. I’m not going to get into the details of…

Last week I was re-awarded as a Microsoft MVP (This is the third year now) and I am so grateful. The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award is a unique program (Learn more about the program here).…

Announcing support for sending refresh failure notifications to others in addition to the dataset owner. This feature enables dataset owners to monitor data refreshes more reliably and more e…

This outlines the new features for July gateway release.

Here is a post that is long overdue as the functionality has been available for almost a year now. Today we will enable scheduled refresh to the Strava custom connector...

Recently in Power BI, a new feature was added for Paginated Reports e-mail subscriptions where you could optionally add a preview image in the body of your e-mail message. By default, this is…

June was yet another exciting month for Power BI! Read on for a summary of the announcements we made in both the service and mobile.

Thanks for watching this week’s Power BI news roundup! Last weeks roundup: https://guyinacu.be/roundup144 Tech video: https://guyinacu.be/appsandworkspaces Sources Slicer with Histogram in Power BI (@ExceleratorBI) The Dynamic Time Matrix (@PowerBITips) Sending refresh notifications to others On-premises data gateway July 2019 update is now available Multiple data source definitions on the On-premises data gateway for the same […]

Having the capability to connect external people (B2B) into your data within Power BI is a great feature and a huge advantage when comparing to other customers in my opinion. In this blog post I want …

By In this article, I want to show you the cheat sheet of the Shared Dataset inside Power BI. I tried to cover all the information related to shared dataset. As you know, the Shared dataset is one the…

Adam shows how you can use the Power BI REST API without writing any code. Then takes it to the next level with PowerShell. Power BI REST API Reference – https://docs.microsoft.com/rest/api/power-bi/ …

New gateway management features on Admin center

Learn how DB Best can help you optimize your environment and workloads after reaching the Power BI Premium resources limit.

A summary explaining the new look in Power BI Service

Thanks for watching this week’s Power BI news roundup! Last weeks roundup: https://guyinacu.be/roundup146 Tech Video: https://guyinacu.be/detectdatachanges Sources Power BI Visual Header Tooltip (@pka…

A quick blog post to show that the new Power BI look and feel report page size is actually bigger than the older version.

A few weeks back[1] I got this comment on my Power BI dataflows overview post: This morning I started to reply to the comment, and by the time I was done I realized that it should be a blog post on…

Patrick breaks down how detect data changes works with Power BI Incremental Refresh. He demystifies some common misunderstandings when using this setting in Power BI Premium. Incremental refresh docum…

Thanks for watching this week’s Power BI news roundup! Last weeks roundup: https://guyinacu.be/roundup145 Tech video: https://guyinacu.be/nocoderestapi Sources My Power BI Report is Slow – What Should…