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June release of gateway

We’re thrilled to introduce a new look for getting apps! As of today, getting an app from your organization or from the AppSource marketplace has never been easier!

There is now a way to incrementally refresh any Power BI data source using a combination of a SQL Server database and a function.

Learn about datasets and dataflows from Reza Rad from Radacad.com. This is the monthly Power BI user groups for Milwaukee Wisconsin.

well, you must be wondering what is this all about. Why would someone want to create a Power BI Dataflow programmatically when you can do it very easily using Power BI service? But there are scenar…

As Power BI becomes a key tool for decision makers, more and more content is being created and published for them. Being able to easily find that content, to navigate between related items, and to share relevant content with colleagues has become critical to making these users productive when using Power BI and the Power BI Mobile apps. In the last few months the team has being working on improving navigation in the Power BI mobile apps to make it easier for our users to understand their content hierarchy and to navigate between items quickly. We’ve also made it easier to share relevant content with colleagues.

It’s time to recap all the features and announcements we made for the Power BI service and mobile for the months of May and June.

With XMLA endpoints available in Power BI Premium and the recent release of .NET Core versions of the Analysis Services client libraries (ADOMD.NET and AMO) in public preview, you can start building modern cross-platform Power BI solutions across Windows, Linux, and macOS, and cloud-oriented environments.

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These days more and more data lives behind an API, rather than in a more traditional data source like databases or files. These APIs are often designed and optimized for small, chatty[1] interactio…

We’re pleased to announce two new actions are available for the Power BI connector in Power Automate. Now, you may easily leverage the Power BI export API for either Power BI reports or paginated reports in your workflows in Power Automate.

Previously, AutoML models could only be applied to entities in the same dataflow. With this new capability, users don’t need to be an owner of the dataflow that has the model.  They can use models created by others in the same workspace.

The ‘new look’ of the Power BI service is evolving again based on your feedback during public preview…

All the improvements of the ‘new look’, from navigation updates to the simplified action bar for reports and dashboards, begins rolling out next week and will be generally available to all tenants and users by early November. Thank you for your feedback during public preview as we made incremental updates to modernize and simplify the Power BI service.

We have added lots of new capabilities to Power Query Online & Dataflows. This blog post provides a recap walkthrough of these new capabilities.

Power BI Publish to web helps organizations share data on public websites, enabling communities to stay informed. Learn how you can make your reports load faster for users, and provide improved experiences in the event your report experiences heavy usage.

When sharing Dashboards, Reports and Apps with External Power BI Users there is an updated view and a way to enable the navigation pane!

We’re happy to introduce new admin settings in Power BI admin portal, which provide you more granular control over export options in Power BI, and extend export settings to control also export from paginated reports.

We’ve looked at images from sources like OneDrive and the web with your Power BI reports. What about from a database? Is that possible? Patrick takes a look at how you can do it. SQLJason Blog: http://sqljason.com/2018/01/embedding-images-in-power-bi-using-base64.html Gerhard’s Blog: https://blog.gbrueckl.at/2018/01/storing-images-powerbi-analysis-services-data-models/ Chris Webb’s Blog: https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2019/05/19/storing-large-images-in-power-bi-datasets/

This blog post shows how to vary the partition configuration for Power BI datasets using Power BI Premium or Power BI Premium Per User

We’re starting off the first full week of December with a bang!  First, we finished rolling out the public preview of Premium per user to all public tenants earlier today.  And now, as if you needed another reason to jump into the preview, we’re pleased to announce one of the most highly requested features on Power BI user voice is now available.

The most exciting feature of this version is that now with a few clicks you can clean up the Power BI model, but we have a few other things to add also; Exporting the result of DMV Partitions (Includes the M script of each table)Showing unused measures in the visualization tabshowing all columns/measures that their…

If you've been reading the Power BI announcements, you probably know already that there is a very exciting new integration with Power Automate: the Dataflows Power Automate connectors!For those of …

We’re excited to introduce a new datasets hub in the Power BI service and Power BI personal app in Teams. The datasets hub makes it easy to find, explore, and use the datasets in your organization. It provides information about the datasets as well as entry points for creating reports on top of those datasets or for using those datasets with Analyze in Excel.

Back in October I blogged about using PowerShell and/or the Power BI dataflows REST APIs to trigger a dataset refresh on dataflow refresh completion. This was a new capability and was well received…

Power BI is the Magic Quadrant Leader among analytics and business intelligence platforms and over 200,000 customers around the world use Power BI and bring 40 petabytes of data into Power BI every …

Power BI Premium Generation 2 (preview) was announced few months ago and offered substantial improvements in performance and scale to Premium subscribers. Today we are thrilled to announce that the …

If you are looking to change the user connection when using Excel to a Power BI dataset or Azure Analysis Services I explain how to do this.