Posts tagged: Analysis Services

Power BI paves the way for smooth Azure Analysis Services migrations

We are committed to helping our Azure Analysis Services customers unlock the enormous capabilities of Power BI as a superset of Azure Analysis Services through a smooth migration path to Power BI. As part of this effort, we are happy to announce today that Power BI has reached yet another compatibility milestone with the introduction of explicit Dataset Write permissions.

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Power BI bolsters Azure AS compatibility with EffectiveUserName support

We are announcing support for user impersonation using the EffectiveUserName connection-string property. This is truly exciting because it opens the door for mass migrations of tabular Analysis Services solutions that rely on EffectiveUserName-based impersonation to Power BI. It also opens new options for administrative tools and scripts to connect to datasets on Power BI Premium using different user identities! Impersonating another user can be as easy as specifying that user’s UPN on the connection string.

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