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We are excited to announce new improvements to Power BI dataflows releasing this month including non-admin gateway support and further improvements to the enhanced compute engine. We also have released a new best practices guide for dataflows to help you make the best use of the new enhanced compute engine.

This blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI embedded analytics and Custom Visuals.

Adam breaks down v-core pooling with Power BI Premium. Explaining where the v-cores come from and how creating a Power BI Premium node affects the v-core pool.

Here’s a quick recap of all the features and announcements in the monthly of August.

Learn how to work with Power BI files (PBIX) inside SharePoint. There are a number of suggesstions to make your experince a pleasant one. Read Here.

Welcome back to another “New Feature Friday” for Paginated Reports in the Power BI service.  We’re pleased to announce three new features rolling out around paginated reports.

With data lakes becoming popular, and Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 being used for many of them, a common question I am asked about is “How can I access data in ADLS Gen2 instead of a cop…

We’re thrilled to introduce template apps update capability! From now on, after downloading and connecting a template app from AppSource every Power BI Pro or Premium user can update the app while preserving the connection configuration.

Adam looks at how you can get your gateway working with Power BI dataflows, even if you aren’t an admin of the gateway. There is one thing that most people overlook. We show you what it is!

While the documentation on how to import data from Azure Data Lake Gen2 Storage into Power BI is pretty detailed, the connector (which at the time of writing is in beta) that supports this function…

When you have 100 reports.... When you have a lot of dimention.... When you have thousands of entities, If you need to query the entire system, to understand: where does the data come from? which entities are read? which "job" is launched? Is the call manual or timed? Entity XXX, which Factabl...

Best practices for Power BI dataflows

If you’re a frequent reader of this blog, or a frequent user of Power BI dataflows, you probably know these things already: Power BI dataflows are workspace-level objects in the Power BI serv…

This post started as a response to this question from Mark, who was commenting on last week’s data lineage post: How would you decide how big or how small to make each artifact in the lineage…

Power BI dataflows have included capabilities for data lineage since they were introduced in preview way back in 2018. The design of dataflows, where each entity is defined by the Power Query that …

This Power BI Blog post details how to bulk change permissions when using datasets when using the Power BI App in the Power BI Service

Today, we are making scheduling of refreshes much more flexible to improve how Power BI works in processes like the ones described above. Specifically, we have added a new Refresh a dataset&#…

Pubic preview- PowerShell gateway

This question comes up pretty regularly, I have a big screen in my hallway and I want to show some Power BI reports that rotate. Now there is some build...

Last week I kicked off the new BI Polar YouTube channel with a video and blog post comparing and contrasting Power BI dataflows and datasets. In the days that followed, I continued to hear questions t…

Intro In the coming days I have a meeting with technical people about PowerShell and would like to start with a survey to get an idea of the knowledge about PowerShell of the people in the room. Putti…

The new workspaces in Power BI Service contain 4 roles: Admin, Member, Contributor, and Viewer. Simplifying the table below, users or groups granted an Admin role have permissions to make any type of …

Case Exiting news from the Microsoft Power Platform. You can now use Microsoft Flow to refresh a Power BI dataset. How does it work and why...

Power BI is without question the best way to report on data in SharePoint lists. The query tools available in Power Query make working with SharePoint data relatively painless, an the cached datase…

I received today what is becoming a common question: I have a customer who is using dataflows to populate a 255M row fact table, refreshing the last 2 months of data (which is working) but experiencin…

Dataflows are part of the Power BI service for a while now. More and more people are starting to benefit from it in multiple perspectives. The two most heard ones are re-use of data (and logic), but a…

The new contact list for reports and dashboards makes it easy to support end users by providing a contact list that includes multiple users or even groups in the Power BI service. When used with the New Look for the Power BI service, end users can quickly find and contact someone to make timely data driven decisions. Read on to learn more about the new contact list capability.

It’s time again to recap the features and announcements in the Power BI service and mobile for the month of September.

Learn how to add needed context to your business intelligence content easily using Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Sway. The results will amaze you.

I do a lot that’s not related to dataflows. In fact, dataflows take up a surprisingly small part of my day, if your insight into my calendar came solely from this blog. Despite this, I like t…