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Exporting the workspaces list from the Admin Portal

In a comment to the recent announcement of Workspace Management in the Admin Portal, JohnR asked for an option to export the list of workspaces with the fields provided. This would help facilitate admin work across thousands of workspaces. A great suggestion! Perhaps you wanted to export the list of workspaces placed on Premium capacities, …

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Power BI Dataset data source support for Paginated Reports is now available

As discussed in our blog post announcing support for Azure Analysis Services,  we promised to unlock the critical capability of allowing Paginated Reports to be built on the same enterprise semantic model as your interactive reports.  This week for “New Feature Friday”, we’re pleased to announce that Power BI Datasets in premium workspaces are now …

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Announcing Power BI Home General Availability (GA) & Roadmap

Announcing Power BI Home General Availability (GA) & Roadmap

On-premises data gateway April 2019 update is now available

We are happy to announce that we have just released the April update for the On-premises data gateway (version 3000.3.138). Here are some of the things that we would like to highlight with this month’s release: Availability of the following connectors via the On-premises data gateway Oracle Essbase connector PDF support in File connectors. The …

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Skip Test Connection for On-premises and Cloud Data Sources

Update for disabling the skip test connection feature

Enhancements to On-premises data gateway management in the Power platform Admin center

We launched the public preview of the Data Gateway administration feature on the Power platform admin center in January. This feature provides tenant admins with visibility into all On-premises data gateways within their organization and also management capabilities. We are now excited to add 2 new capabilities to this feature: Visibility into On-premises data gateway …

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Announcing Query Caching in Power BI Premium

Today we are pleased to announce Query Caching for Power BI Premium, which speeds up content loading by caching previously-used query results. The setting is applied at the dataset level so any reports using this dataset can benefit from the cache. This feature is not applicable to LiveConnect datasets leveraging Azure Analysis Services or SQL …

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New Power BI Premium summary and workload metrics available in the admin portal

We have rolled out a new high-level summary metrics experience in the Power BI Admin Portal . This new experience replaces the four summary tiles you previously saw : CPU, Memory thrashing, Memory usage and DirectQuery with wide range of metrics measuring the summary of usage in the last 7 days to better portray the health …

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Live now, full session catalog for Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2019

Time to get excited – the full session catalog for Microsoft Business Applications Summit is here. Explore every breakout session and workshop coming to the conference, taking place in Atlanta, Georgia June 10 – 11, 2019. Get ready to flex your skills – and build new ones – with all things Power BI and beyond. …

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E-Mail Subscriptions for Paginated Reports is Now Available

E-mail subscriptions is one of the key features used by millions of SQL Server Reporting Services customers today. Our latest release for “New Feature Friday” is the support of Paginated Reports in e-mail subscriptions in Power BI. Now, for the first time, you can schedule an e-mail subscription with a PDF attachment of your full …

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