Power BI introduces service availability notifications
Having insight into the availability of your mission critical business applications is extremely important to ensure that you, as a Power BI admin, can serve your users. Today, we are pleased…
Aggregations for petabyte-scale BI is generally available!
The volume of data is growing at an ever-increasing rate. As it grows, so does the value to the companies that are able to unlock insights from it. Power BI is all about helping organizations…
Connecting Azure Analysis Services to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
With the public preview available for “Multi-Protocol Access” on Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, now AAS can use the Blob API to access files in ADLSg2. Check how to do…
In the datacenters West US 2 and West Central US there’s now a public preview available for "Multi-Protocol Access" on Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. So, Blob APIs now work with accounts that have a hi…
Power BI Premium new capacity settings allow for more control over datasets
Five new Power BI Premium Capacity settings are available in the portal , preloaded with default values. Admin can review and override the defaults with their preference to better protect the…
Access on-prem Report Server from your Power BI Mobile app with Azure Active Directory Application Proxy
Power BI Mobile team partnered with Azure Active Directory team to integrate Power BI mobile applications with Azure Active Directory (AAD) Application Proxy to connect to Report Server from their mobile app, without the need to setup complex on-premise configuration.
Classify Your Data with Power BI Dashboard Data Classification
Power BI has a feature that helps users understand the sensitivity of the data they are dealing with. This is referred to as Data Classification and can be useful when implementing data governance. Let’s go through how to set this up. First, Data Classification will need to be enabled by a Power BI Administrator under Tenant Settings. To do this, go to Settings and Admin portal, then select Tenant Settings, … Continue reading Classify Your Data with Power BI Dashboard Data Classification
As development continues on ADLS gen2, Power BI now has a beta connector available. This can be found in the Azure folder of the Get Data Experience To connect to your storage account, you will nee…
A brand new product by Microsoft called Azure Data Share was recently announced. It is in public preview. To explain the product in short, any data which resides in Azure storage can be securely sh…
Change to Summarized Data Export behavior with Build permission
As we rolled out the preview of Shared Datasets and the new Build permission, we received feedback that our limitations on export of summarized data from a visual are overly restrictive. We are adjusting our approach based on your feedback. Specifically, we will allow users with the Read permission to export summarized data from a visual. 
Today, I am thrilled to announce the release of custom branding for the Power BI service. Now you can change the look and feel of the Power BI service to match your corporate theme with just a few clicks!
Power BI Premium Query Profiling with DAX Studio and SQL Profiler Patrick looks at how you can use D…
Patrick looks at how you can use DAX Studio, or SQL Profiler, to do query profiling on Power BI Premium. This can help you debug query performance and more.
Adam look at Power BI build permissions with shared datasets. Taking the mystery out of how you can interact with datasets and know what to do if you can’t use it. This also looks at how Power BI free users can use shared datasets with Power BI Premium.
Introducing Power BI mobile app’s new look (preview)
Today, we’re excited to announce the public preview of the “new look” now available on Power BI Mobile.  We’ve refreshed our app and introduced new experiences, adding a home page that p…
How to monitor Power BI Gateway using a Power BI report?
In 2019-May release of Power BI on-premises gateway, it has introduced a new feature called Gateway Performance Monitoring. Power BI team has given this feature so that now you can monitor query ac…
Since the release of Power BI Template Apps, more than 50 new apps have joined the marketplace. It’s about time we would be able to search for template apps in a new way – in our own Power BI report that can be installed as a Template App – and not just by searching for …