Category: Microsoft Power BI

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . The month of August was yet another busy one for the Power BI team. We continued to roll out new features and make updates across the stack. Here’s a quick recap of all the announcements in case you missed it: New capacity settings for Power BI Premium We started off by announcing five new settings for your Premium capacities in the admin portal. Now, you can set limits on “Max Offline Dataset Size” with the allowable range from 0.1 to 10 GB and even set limits on queries to prevent ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are excited to announce new improvements to Power BI dataflows releasing this month including non-admin gateway support and further improvements to the enhanced compute engine. We also have released a new best practices guide for dataflows to help you make the best use of the new enhanced compute engine. Dataflows now allows users to create data sources against gateways they are a member of. Prior to this update, users would need to be an admin of the gateway before they could create a dataflow against the respective data ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . This blog post covers the latest updates for the Power BI Developer community. Don’t forget to check out our last developer blog post, if you haven’t done so already. Here is the list of updates for this month: Embedded analytics AUTOMATION & LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT Track Power BI content consumption with audit logs Query caching for embedded reports and dashboards EMBED CAPABILITIES Sort visuals using an API is now available Filters APIs now supports Top N filter type Power BI Visuals Platform About feature Come and meet us! AUTOMATION & LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . You’ll notice one of our exciting updates right away when creating new reports with the September update of Power BI Desktop, a new, modern default theme! Not only do we have a new default theme, but we’ve more than doubled the number of built-in theme options for your report. If you’re a theme author, potentially more exciting are the updates to our theme JSON format which make it much quicker and easier for you to create your own custom themes that significantly change the look and feel of your ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We’re excited about all the new innovations we’re rolling out in the October 2019 Microsoft business applications release and want to share the highlights with you. Please join us for the Microsoft Business Applications Virtual Launch Event on October 10, 2019 from 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Pacific Time. This free event offers an in-depth look at the new capabilities and features announced in the 2019 release wave 2 across Dynamics 365 and the Microsoft Power Platform. See the new innovations first-hand and discover how these Dynamics 365 and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Power BI Mobile provides the tools users need to stay connected to their data, wherever business takes them. But, as organizations grow, we understand that it’s increasingly difficult for Power BI users to discover and manage the content that matters to them on the go.  It’s important for us that our users are able to find exactly what they need quickly and easily when they’re using the Power BI mobile app to view and interact with their content. Today, we’re excited to announce the public preview of the “new ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . “New Feature Friday” returns as we’re thrilled to introduce support for URL parameters for paginated reports in the Power BI service.  This capability allows report authors to send commands to paginated reports in Power BI by adding a parameter to a URL. For example, you can pass report parameters to a report by including them in a paginated report URL, and even construct this URL dynamically in a Power BI report and drillthrough to a paginated report by using a DAX measure. To use report parameters, you need to prefix ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of SQL Server 2019 Reporting Services is now available in the download center.  While the team has previously released several updates for SQL Server customers via Power BI Report Server, this is the first feature update to the core SQL Server Reporting Services product for the 2019 release wave. Download SQL Server 2019 Reporting Services With this release, we’ve added new features to help customers meet their changing business needs around cloud-readiness and accessibility.  These include – Support for hosting your ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We find great pleasure in announcing RC1 of SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services (SSAS 2019). The SSAS 2019 release is now feature complete! We may still make performance improvements for the RTM release. RC1 introduces the following features: Custom ordering of calculation items in calculation groups Query interleaving with short query bias for high-concurrency workloads Online attach for optimized synchronization of read-only replicas Improved performance of Power BI reports over SSAS multidimensional Governance setting to control Power BI cache refreshes SSAS 2019 features announced in previous CTPs are recapped ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . As we rolled out the preview of Shared Datasets and the new Build permission, we received feedback that our limitations on export of summarized data from a visual are overly restrictive.   Today a user with Read permission can see a visual’s data in two ways. First, they can see it rendered in the visual. Second, they can use the See Data feature to view a grid of the data used to render the visual. The grid contains only the summarized data.  As such the user has access to the summarized data for a visual already. Before ... Read More