Category: Microsoft Power BI

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Our business applications community is growing, so we needed a different venue, resulting in a new date and location for the Microsoft Business Applications Summit May 6–7, 2020 in Dallas, Texas. We hope to see you there! Everyone has data. Come to the Microsoft Business Applications Summit ­­­­ and unleash the potential. Meet other power users in your community and discover how business applications can help you tackle your business challenges and stay continuously proactive. Registration is open now, with a Pre-day opportunity on May 5th. Don’t miss out! Why you should ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We have added Capacity Health Center to the Power BI Premium capacity metrics app (version 2.0 ), making it a one-stop-shop for admins. Upon opening the report, the admin lands on a page called the “Health Center” and learns about its 3 key performance indicators(KPIs) : capacity planning, refresh wait, and query wait. These KPIs allow admins to further explore the current state of their capacity, through specific visualizations of the relevant metrics, following a troubleshooting guide to get a detailed explanation as to what the metrics mean to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are happy to announce that we have just released the December update for the On-premises data gateway (version 3000.21.18)  December Version of the mashup engine GA of Kerberos based Single Sign-On (SSO) for SAP BW Message Server Oracle GA of Kerberos based Single Sign-On (SSO) for SAP BW Message Server and Oracle  You have been able to use Single Sign-On, leveraging Kerberos, when connecting to some data sources including SAP BW Application Server in DirectQuery mode from Power BI. You can now also connect to SAP BW Message ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are excited to announce the availability of a new Power BI API called the activity log, which enables Power BI service admins to track user and admin activities within a Power BI tenant. It is comparable to the unified Office 365 audit log in the sense that both logs contain a complete copy of the Power BI auditing data, but there are also several key differences that are particularly important for Power BI service admins, as the following table reveals. Unified Office 365 audit log Power BI activity ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . To provide the best-in-class encryption to our customers, Microsoft plans to discontinue the support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.0 and 1.1 in the Power BI service as of June 2020. We understand that the security of your data is important, and we’re committed to transparency about changes that may affect your use of the TLS service. The Microsoft TLS 1.0 implementation has no known security vulnerabilities. But because of the potential for future protocol downgrade attacks and other TLS vulnerabilities, we are discontinuing support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1. For information about how ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . This December update is packed with several new features! In preview, we have the new Customize theme dialog that allows you to tweak common theme settings without having to write or modify a JSON file! Additionally, we now allow you to export the current theme as a JSON so you can easily share, reuse, or make modifications to the JSON in an editor. Last month, we released the new decomposition tree, and this month, we are adding several new formatting options. With these additional formatting options, you can completely ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Power BI publish to web enables users to quickly embed a report in a public website. It is not intended for users to share confidential or proprietary information. In the coming weeks we will roll out a change to our default settings that requires Power BI admins to allow public embedding before end users can create new embed codes. The change will not affect existing embed codes, which will keep working as they have been. We’re sharing this information now so you can understand the coming changes before they reach ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Three months ago, we introduced the “new look” for Power BI Mobile as a preview and asked for your feedback. And your feedback was awesome! You told us that you love the new look and find it easier for finding content and navigating in the app. Today, the new look for Power BI Mobile is generally available (GA) and becomes the default look for all users. You no longer need to turn it on in the app settings (and, you also can’t turn it off). Now when you open ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We’re excited to introduce a new Power BI sample report for you to play around with. This report includes new features, shows designs factors you should take into consideration when building a report, and has been optimized Power BI Desktop, service, and mobile. You can see how visuals from AppSource can be added to your reports, how they work well with other Power BI visuals, and learn how the Power Apps visual can be used in a report. Click on the image below to explore the sample in the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Power BI Premium provides the richest set of capabilities for both self-service and enterprise BI solutions.  Azure Analysis Services is also an option for enterprise BI solutions. So if you’re looking at deploying an enterprise BI solution, which one is for you? First – some definitions. Power BI Premium is a hosted service (SaaS) that allows you to host datasets and share Power BI reports and dashboards with anyone in your organization without requiring recipients to be individually licensed. Power BI Premium provides dedicated hardware and capacity hosted by ... Read More