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View refresh parallelism in one-second bins

Use Power Query in paginated reports to connect to many new data sources

I had a task to help a managed services team in monitoring multiple production datasets and reports in Power BI. These resources, accessed by thousands of users, demanded optimal performance. For this we had to streamline information gathering, implement an intuitive platform, and empower the team to explore both high-level overviews and granular query details.

Model metadata in Power BI is getting more and more accessable and there are a fair amount of tool that we can use to work with it. Report metadata on the otherhand is not easy to work with. In my previous blog post, I showed how you can use Log Analytics to improve the performance

We recently made the following Power BI app improvements you asked for: the ability to copy item links from authoring view, a setting for granting access to hidden content, and increasing the maximum number of audiences to 25 (previously 10).

For Power Automate to use the Power BI Rest API it needs a service principle profile, by creating an app registration with permission.

How the query caching feature can improve report performance

A PowerApp to orquestrate Power BI Refreshes is not rocket science but there are plenty of details. This almost my first PowerApp I hope it helps others.

Introducing the public preview of the new Explore feature, where users have a lightweight and focused experience to explore their data. Similar to exporting and building a PivotTable in Excel, now, directly within Power BI users can quickly launch Explore to begin creating a matrix/visual pair to get the answers they need without all the distractions and extra complexity of reports.

Power BI REST API custom functions. Contribute to tirnovar/Power_BI_REST_API_PQ development by creating an account on GitHub.

Learn how to enable service principal authentication to permit use of read-only admin APIs.

Our new cross-tenant dataset sharing capability is now available in public preview! This exciting capability allows customers to share their Power BI datasets with external users (consumers) in a way that allows these external users to access the datasets in their own Power BI tenant.

Explore a few proven strategies for setting up workspaces for your Power BI Premium Per Capacity (PPC) in this insightful blog. Read today!

Using Azure Blob Storage learn how to quickly pre-load data into production data models.

Hear about the latest updates to Datamart in Power BI since the //Build announcement

In the last post I went over using Power Automate to perform a data driven report subscription using a Paginated report referencing an AAS database. The flow referenced an Excel file with the infor…

We’re thrilled to announce that a new component for embedding Power BI content in Vue.js applications is now available! Vue is an increasingly popular JavaScript framework for building front-end user interfaces and websites.

In the last post I went over using Power Automate to perform a data driven report subscription using a Paginated report referencing a Power BI dataset. The flow referenced an Excel file with the in…

We are very pleased to announce the introduction of AAD-based filtration to the Power BI Datamarts tenant setting.

Using the new Power BI Audiences with AAD Security Groups for easier management of reports/dashboards for users.

In this post I will go over a topic that is frequently asked about and that is using a Service Principal account with Power BI when connecting to data sources. Currently today none of the built-in …

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Connecting Power BI to Microsoft GraphYou are almost near to achieve your goal of becoming Microsoft Power Platform expert. Till now we expect that you have read all the previous blogs and this is our fifth blog. Let have a top-level view of previous blogs.Revision:In first blog we have learned the b

Microsoft Power BI is a business analytics tool which allows users to gain insight from their data. You can easily create an interactive dashboard by just dragging and dropping data columns into the visualization plane. In this article, I'll show you how to use Python to help you leverage

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Being able to do a data driven report subscription with Power BI and Paginated reports is a common request we hear from many customers. Let’s say you want to send a PDF version of a report to…