Power BI - Service

I first wrote on this topic way back in March 2019. I love Power BI, and it is one of the most affordable BI products on the market for most companies. If you are a small company of 10 or 20 people, it is dirt cheap at $10 per user [...]Read More »

I’m happy to announce that the Power BI App for Microsoft Teams is Generally Available. Learn about the enhancements to the app, how we’re making it easier to deploy it, and how easy it is to get started using data to make better decisions and take better actions.

We’re excited to announce new capabilities and improvements for Power BI goals that make it easier than ever to integrate goals into all of your business processes. Learn about the new goals visual, Power Automate integration, goal level permissions, and other experience enhancements.

Back in February, I wrote a blog on how you can trigger a single table to refresh in your Power BI data model. This blog described how you can achieve this goal using a PowerShell script and the AS…

Power BI dataflows is a nice capability of Power BI. It’s actually not a new Microsoft product. If you use Excel and Power BI long enough, there is a big chance that you’ve already used Power Query …

In the 2nd part of the series, learn what Synapse brings to a table for Power BI developers, and how you can leverage both tools to get indefinite number of use-cases!

Though you can build real-time reports with DirectQuery, push datasets offer a more scalable, economical, and effective solution especially when combined wi

Recent integrations between Azure Purview and Power BI enable greater data agility for organizations of all sizes

Something that got lost in all the excitement around Excel reports connected to Power BI datasets working in Excel Online is the fact that Excel reports connected to the Excel Data Model – ak…

Push datasets are an efficient and inexpensive way to implement real-time updates in Power BI reports and dashboards. They can provide better performance an

Though you can build real-time reports with DirectQuery, push datasets offer a more scalable, economical, and effective solution especially when combined wi

In this blog post I show how to overcome an error when deploying to Power BI Premium per User when there are incremental partitions created.

We are excited to announce that XMLA endpoints on Premium Per User (PPU) now support Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication with service principals. This authentication option enables administrative applications to perform automated maintenance tasks and unattended service-level operations by using their own app identities, which is often a requirement for migration of existing tabular data models from Azure Analysis Services and SQL Server Analysis Services to Power BI Premium. For technical details, see the article Automate Premium workspace and dataset tasks with service principals in the product documentation.

We are thrilled to announce some exciting new capabilities for streaming dataflows in Power BI.

If you are looking to grant users in Power BI Read permissions to a dataset, I show you how I did this in my blog post.

We are pleased to announce the preview availability of our new Unused Artifacts API. The initial version of this API returns a list of datasets that have not been used within 30 days for a specified workspace, and successive revisions will include other artifact types such as reports and dashboards.

Power BI offers the ability for users who have access to a dataset in the Power BI service (PowerBI.com) to connect to the dataset using Excel. Normally, this feature is referred to as Analyze in E…

Returns a list of artifacts that the given user have access to (Preview). This API allows 200 requests per hour at maximum.

AD Security Group support is now available for Log Analytics for Premium workspaces. This allows Tenant administrators to control which Workspace admins can use the Log Analytics integration to log activities from their Power BI workspace.

A new Admin API to determine user permissions

I show how you can change the contact information for each report within a Power BI App Workspace to show contact details

The Insights feature helps users easily explore and find insights such as anomalies, trends in their data as they interact and consume their reports.

Using PowerBI Dataflow to share data between departments is increasingly getting more popular, with the rise of managed self service offering, it is not unusual to find a non centralised Data wareh…

One of the most challenging aspects of developing your own application is adding reporting capabilities. Power BI Embedded gives you the ability to include the capabilities of Power BI while hosting the reports in your application.  This post provides a curated resource guide.

Paradigm BI Posts - Paradigm BI and Active Business Intelligence Updates - Power BI can become a closed garden for Excel users, but what if we use WorkFlows to expose the data?

Our upcoming State and Local Power BI Community Call will focus on administrative scripts that can be used for lightweight management of your Power BI environment. This will be a script heavy session …

I’m happy to update that during September we are modifying the preview release, specifically lifting the 50 exports per hour per capacity limit. More details inside.