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The third part of the blog series covers loading data into AAS or PPU and how this happens and works.

We’re happy to announce new developer samples that will show you how to add data source, update data source, and encrypt credentials. In the new samples you’ll find an end-to-end flow of all the required Power BI REST APIs. The samples are available in .NET Core, Java, and Python. You can find the new samples … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-developer-samples-for-update-data-sources-and-encrypt-credentials/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “New developer samples for update data sources and encrypt credentials”</span></a></p>

Power BI is making it simple to view and analyze your personal Microsoft Teams activity with a new preview feature to ‘Analyze your Teams data’.

We’re excited to introduce new developer samples for embedding Power BI analytics in Salesforce. You can embed Power BI report, dashboards and more in Salesforce for your organization or for your customers. By embedding Power BI in Salesforce, your users will have access to Power BI interactive data visualizations that can be connected to all … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/embed-power-bi-in-salesforce/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Embed Power BI in Salesforce”</span></a></p>

Back in 2019, Ton Swart and I wrote a blog post on Versioning and CI/CD for Power BI with Azure DevOps. Back then, there were not many options available for versioning and professionalizing your AL…

Learn how to document the entire Power BI service tenant objects without writing any code. You can export all workspcaces, reports, datasets etc.

Email notifications for dataflow refreshes now available for non-owners

Object Level Security (OLS) helps to protect our data assets inside Power BI. OLS can be applied to a table or just a single column.

Easy data sharing with endless possibilities

PowerBI Data Portal is now available. Try it for free for 15 days and start sharing your Power BI datalflows with anyone.

Part 2, goes into comparing the scalability between AAS and PPU and how it compares to when it is scaling upwards.

Back in December, we launched a new create experience within the Power BI service that allowed you to quick explore your data with just a few clicks. Now, we’re excited to announce, as our first integration of this experience, the launch of our Power BI integration within SharePoint lists. This experience empowers SharePoint list and Microsoft List users to easily explore their list data with just a few clicks.

We’ve started to roll-out an update to the home experience in the Power BI app for Microsoft Teams. Users in Teams will see a new “In Teams” pivot on Power BI home that makes it easy to find Power BI tabs you’ve visited previously in Teams channels. Read the blog to learn all about it.

Log Analytics is a basic tool for the entire Azure environment, I wrote about it before.The possibility to access log analytics data from a tool for analysis, such as Power BI, only increases its …

Deployment pipelines can be automated! With the first set of APIs, you can automate deployments or integrate the deployment process into familiar tools, like Azure Pipelines or GitHub Actions.

Power BI is changing the game for modern enterprise BI by seamlessly integrating with cutting-edge big data, data warehouse, and data virtualization technologies, such as Denodo. The Denodo platform …

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

A video on how to make Power BI refreshes faster

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

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

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.

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).

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!

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

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…

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.

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