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We are excited to announce the public preview of VNet connectivity for Power BI datasets.

As you may have noticed, life is complicated and keeps getting in the way of my plans to be a more active blogger and YouTuber[1]. I haven’t released a new dataflows video of my own in far to…

This blog post demonstrates how to feature a certified app in Power BI Home and in a Users Apps to be easily found.

As data becomes more accessible for analysis, risk of accidental oversharing or misuse of business-critical information increases. Today, we’re happy to announce a preview of Power BI MIP label inheritance when import data from Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure SQL Database. This capability will help you to ensure your data remains classified and secured across its data journey from Azure, trough Power BI and all the way to Office.

Learn why and how to deploy Power BI for Microsoft Teams broadly within your organization. This guide provides you a game plan to justify and execute a roll-out. It helps you move to action quickly with PowerShell script example to automate the process.

Deployment pipelines helps enterprise BI teams build an efficient and reusable release process by maintaining development, test, and production environments.BI teams adopting deployment pipelines, …

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

A collection of best practice links and guidance for dataflows

Sharing reports in Power BI will be as easy and familiar as sharing in Office. At the end of this month, we’ll be introducing a new sharing capability in Power BI that will allow reports to be shared with people within the organization through shareable links.

Deployment pipelines helps enterprise BI teams build an efficient and reusable release process by maintaining development, test, and production environments.BI teams adopting deployment pipelines, …

We‘re excited to announce object level security (OLS) is now generally available in Power BI Premium and Pro!

"If 80 percent of our work is data preparation, then ensuring data quality is the important work of a machine learning team." Andrew Ng Data quality is one of the highest challenges in any BI project. ETL developers tend to spend a lot of time creating data preparation processes with complex and expensive pro-code tools…

Over the years I have written a lot about Power BI/Power Query performance but it has always been in the context of loading data direct into datasets, not dataflows. A lot of cool things have been …

The purpose of this article is to provide Power BI developers with a deeper understanding of the dependencies when updating data sources in a Power BI dataset through XMLA endpoints. Most importantly, Power BI maintains security-related data source information such as credentials and privacy settings outside the dataset, whereas Azure Analysis Services and SQL Server Analysis Services maintain these settings in the data model.

Certifying content in Power BI should be a very meaningful designation. In this post & video we cover: The two types of endorsements in the Power BI Service What types of content can be endorsed The meaning of certification for data, reports, and apps

Automatic Page Refresh is not a commonly used feature, but it is very powerful when used in conjunction with the Power Automate visual to refresh Power BI datasets.

Most people working for a single organization are unlikely to run into this use case, but if you’re a consultant like me then this issue will annoy you. In Power BI Desktop, authentication ag…

Premium Gen2 Preview important dates for autoscale coming up and timelines update

Organizations exist to achieve business objectives and in today’s data driven world, we know that progress is measured through data. However, this is often challenging as goal tracking systems are disconnected from your business data and often require manual updates. Not only that, but goals need to be optimized for teamwork, tightly integrated into core business processes, and easily extended. We are very excited to announce the public preview of Goals in Power BI. Read more in this blog!

e are excited to announce the public preview of Backup and Restore for datasets in Power BI Premium and Premium per User (PPU). You can now use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), Analysis Services cmdlets for PowerShell, and other tools to perform backup and restore operations in Power BI via XMLA endpoints in much the same way as you would for tabular models in Azure Analysis Services (Azure AS).

We’re excited to announce a new sharing experience that allows sharing reports via links. Previously in the old experience, we supported sharing reports by granting direct access. For the new experience, reports can be shared via links in addition to direct access sharing.

Announcing new capability that makes it easy for template app users to update their apps in one simple step!

Power BI Goals help you visualize and monitor your business’ statistics, analytics, and metrics (SAM) over time. I'll show you how to...

Creating a Query catalog of a Power BI workspace, using read-access XMLA endpoints. and a C# Azure Function.

A video on how to make Power BI refreshes faster

Learn about Step Folding Indicators and Query Plan features for Power Query Online!