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Another week has flown by and there are once again more Power BI Updates, which I really enjoy. But at the same time there is so much content and blog posts that at times it is a bit of a struggle …

Join Microsoft Program Managers, Mathew Roche and Charles Sterling in this demo heavy webinar for a tour of the Common Data Service for Apps, Common Data Service for Analytics and Power BI Insights Ap…

The Power BI Usage Metrics Solution Template is now the primary or "Plan A" approach for monitoring Power BI activities (i.e. create, delete, share) and analyzing usage patterns and trends. Prior to t…

Power BI Premium was announced generally available less than a year ago as the platform of choice for enterprises deploying high-performance, scalable BI systems in the cloud. In the May release of…

Power BI workspaces, apps, and keeping changes from mucking up reports being used in production. In the software development life cycle, a distinct space to test new reports helps ensure that report c…

Today, I am thrilled to announce the availability of dashboard theming in the Power BI service. Power BI dashboards pull together reports, images, Excel workbooks, and more, to provide a 360-degree…

Understand Power BI Premium capacity memory management and optimization.

There are often questions surrounding Publish to Web. What is it? How can I use it to share my reports? This video walks through the [...]

In this video, we look at what’s new with Power BI Embedded. Ran Breuer, the Power BI Embedded engineering helps to walk through those items. Playground – JavaScript Embed Sample Power BI Embedded Samples

In this video, Matthew Roche joins Adam for a look at the Common Data Service for Analytics. This is an offering that will be coming out in public preview in the Summer of 2018 and will help you to bring together data sources into a common schema. Video: Business Application Platform: Power BI | Business […]

Here is this week’s BI-RoundUp. I am hopeful that by this time next week the latest version of Power BI Desktop will be released! Power BI – On-Premise Gateway Update By far the biggest news …

Sometimes you want to connect to a report server instance using Management Studio, for example to create a new security role or modify an existing one. Recently I tried to log into our newly installed Power BI Report Server (March 2018 edition). I was greeted with the following error: The Reporting

How to Create A Real-Time Dataset on Power BI.com Hello P3 Nation! Today’s “post” is actually going to be a video link. Sometimes there are certain subjects, concepts, or post ideas that just don’t translate well to the written word, and especially to screenshots. So this post will be in moving picture form! We’ve

A lot of people have problems with the performance of OData data sources when loading data into Power BI and Excel. One possible cause of these problems is query folding not taking place – if this …

As a quick follow-on from last week’s post on how to detect whether query folding is taking place when importing from OData data sources, if you’re importing data from Analysis Services you have a …

Fun with Graphing in Power BI – Part 5-by-5 (@GregDeckler) Power BI Architecture Guidelines (@Rad_Reza) Build a Collapsible Slicer Pane for Power BI (@dataveld) On-premises data gateway April update i…

Today, as part of Build, we announced that Power BI Custom Visuals will be rolling out in Preview to Office 365 subscribers enrolled in the Office Insiders program soon, extending Excel charting capab…

April turned out to be exciting month for the Power BI team. Mostly because we got to meet many of you, our awesome community members, at the Data & BI Summit in Dublin. Huge thank you for those…

This blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI Developers community- Power BI Embedded and Custom Visuals.

We are excited to announce that we have just released the April update for the On-premises data gateway. Here are some of the things that we would like to highlight with this month’s release:…

Just wanted to share a hack of the problem that you can’t determine the sort order of your reports in the service so they will also be sorted alphabetically. But by using little trick you can…

These are GREAT news! Finally we have a way to refresh data from custom connectors on the Power BI service. Surprise! You can now refresh custom connectors through the Power BI personal gateway (requires April 2018 version) https://t.co/SUF4CEuQBA#pqsdk — Matt Masson (@mattmasson) April 22, 2018 Step 1: Get a Power BI Custom Connector The first …

In this video, Adam looks at how you can update Power BI parameters within the service or by using APIs. You can create Power BI Parameters within Power BI Desktop using Power Query. Then you can update those Power BI parameters once the report is published to the Power BI service. PowerShell Samples

As I am sure a lot of people noticed if you now go into the settings of your dataset there is an additional option which says Parameters. What I wanted to test out was to see if I could change the connection strings using the Parameters in the Power BI Service. The advantages of this working in m...

A workaround to deploy Power Query solutions from Excel or Power BI to a local Analysis Server via Azure Analysis Services.

Useful Data Sources for Demos, Learning and Examples (@jenstirrup) Why is Vertipaq so fast? Part 3: Segment Elimination (@CurbalEN) Power BI GDPR Whitepaper Editing Q&A linguistic schemas Power BI Service and Mobile March Feature Summary Power BI Desktop April Feature Summary BONUS ITEMS: Power BI Feature Spotlight: Using Bookmark Buttons to Create Pop-Up Windows (@PowerPivotPro) […]