Category: Microsoft Power BI

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Happy new year everyone! Since 2022 has started, we have released new deployment pipelines features, that enable plenty of new ways to work with deployment pipelines and leverage its advantages for a more productive release process. Power BI automation tools extension for Azure DevOps During October, we announced that deployment pipelines REST APIs are generally available. Now we are releasing the first official Power BI extension for the Visual Studio marketplace- Power BI automation tools. Using the extension, it will be easier than ever to automate your deployment operations ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Since the Report Viewer control was first introduced over a decade ago, it has been a key component that allowed developers to surface report content easily in their applications. But although the application development landscape has changed significantly since that time, support for the control is limited to both WinForms and WebForms. With the introduction of new, cross-platform options starting with .NET Core in 2016, we’re focusing our investments on new capabilities in Microsoft Power BI to fill this need for you and your customers moving forward. As you ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Earlier this year, we announced Power BI as a superset of Azure Analysis Services. It presents our investment and vision for the Power BI ecosystem to meet the needs of customers requiring BI solutions that scale to petabytes, are secure, easy to manage, and accessible to all users across their entire enterprise. At the core of this vision is that models support blazing fast performance for interactive analysis and business-critical decisions even over vast data volumes. We’re excited to announce on-demand load capabilities to further ensure highly performant and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are excited to unlock additional asynchronous refresh capabilities for Power BI Premium, Power BI Premium per User, and Power BI Embedded! As Power BI becomes a superset of Azure Analysis Services, the asynchronous refresh REST API for Power BI brings built-in features for reliability, such as auto retries and batched commits. It is a significant improvement to the existing Power BI refresh capabilities, providing enterprise grade refresh capability for your largest datasets! A critical requirement for most enterprise BI environments is an up-to-date data model. Due to long ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are excited to announce support of Hybrid Tables in Power BI Premium, which enables us in turn to announce an equally exciting and groundbreaking enhancement to incremental refresh – incremental refresh augmented with real-time data!!! Now you can have blazing fast performance in import mode and the latest data changes in the data warehouse reflected in user reports without having to perform a dataset refresh. For technical details concerning incremental refresh, see the article Incremental refresh for datasets in Power BI in the product documentation. Up until now, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Welcome to the December 2021 update, can you believe that it’s winter and the last month of 2021 year already? We are closing out the year with great new features, such as a new Sparklines preview feature, several new Format Pane updates, e-mail subscription access via Admin API and myriad of other useful features. Please continue to read on. Reporting Data connectivity and preparation Service Mobile Embedded Analytics Visualizations Other Check out the video below for this month’s summary: Sparklines We’re very excited to preview sparklines, a popular feature request, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Two and a half years ago Power BI partnered with Microsoft 365 Compliance to enable you to discover, classify, and protect sensitive information in Power BI using Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) sensitivity labels. Microsoft 365 Compliance solutions are widely used by the infosec teams of enterprise-sized companies to protect sensitive data in Office 365, Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, etc. Today we’re happy to announce the general availability of two very popular MIP label features: Mandatory MIP label policies and Default MIP label policies, which, both together and separately, can ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . The capability to pass custom data for row level security is now available in Power BI Premium, Power BI Embedded, and Power BI Premium per User. You can natively utilize the CustomData feature to add row filters that pass free text (strings) to leverage dynamic row level security in embedded reports, dashboards, and tiles. In the past, this feature was limited to Azure Analysis Services and SQL Server Analysis Services models and could not be used with datasets in Power BI. Now, you can leverage this function for your ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We’re excited to announce the Power BI app for Microsoft Teams is available in the US Government Community cloud (GCC). This enables organizations in GCC to use Power BI as a data hub, enables users to find data without context switches, and to bring data into more collaboration to help make better decisions. With the new app roll-out users can quickly find content in Power BI, discover datasets, take advantage of the built-in Teams activity analytics reporting, and quick create experiences to get started faster using data to take ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We’re very excited to announce a new way to visualize your model-driven Power Apps and Dynamics 365 data stored within Dataverse. With a single click, Power BI automatically generates a set of visuals for you to explore and find insights within your data. This integration is great way to take advantage of the full power of the Power Platform. It’s also the latest extension of the quick creation experience that we’ve already shipped within the Power BI service and in SharePoint and Microsoft lists. To get started, in your ... Read More