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Power BI 2024 Holiday recap

Season’s greetings, Power BI Community! As we wrap up an incredible year, the Microsoft Power BI team is taking a break for December. All planned updates will roll out in January including the next Power BI Desktop release. As we approach another year of innovation, let us take a moment to reflect on some key highlights from 2024.

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Power BI Report Server May 2019 Feature Summary

We’re happy to announce our May 2019 update of Power BI Report Server! This release has many reporting features including conditional formatting for titles and other visual objects, the performance analyzer pane, accessibility support for visuals. The new modeling view is also featured in this release. Read on to learn more about the new features …

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How to govern Power BI visuals inside your organization

Dozens of Power BI visuals come out-of-the box with Power BI Desktop. These visuals are available in the visualizations’ pane when you create or edit Power BI content. These visuals are just the beginning of the available options to help you tell your data story. Learn about the variety of options you get with Power BI visuals and how to manage them in your organization.

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Designing custom navigation for Power BI apps is now available

We’re excited to announce the release of new app navigation experiences that give reporting teams the power to customize navigation for end users, so they can find content quickly and understand the relationships between different reports and dashboards. We’ve also sprinkled in several important new features to help app authors create supportable apps that delight …

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Trusted Third Party Connectors for Power BI

We’re happy to announce one of our most commonly requested features for custom connector support in Power BI – Trusted Third Party Connectors. As it stands today, the only way that you can use a connector with the ‘Recommended’ security setting is for it to be signed and distributed by Microsoft. Unfortunately, this stops a …

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Through Power BI, USAFacts Explores Government Financial Data In Latest Report

Now that tax season is over, are you ready to see how your contributions are helping the government run?  As it did in 2017 and 2018,  USAFacts  published a 10-K Report using Microsoft Power BI to show a comprehensive view of US federal, state and local governments’ revenues and expenditures. The not-for-profit, non-partisan institute—funded by former Microsoft …

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Microsoft Business Applications Summit: Top 10 reasons to attend!

We can’t wait for Microsoft Business Applications Summit this year – and it’s almost here! Coming to Atlanta, Georgia June 10 – 11, this is your chance to get hands-on with your favorite tools, go one-on-one with experts and engineers, and collaborate with our vibrant community of data drivers.     Why Attend? Top 10 reasons to join us in June. Learn more about Microsoft’s …

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Power BI Service and Mobile April 2019 feature summary

April was packed full of new capabilities for Power BI. Thank you for the ongoing support and feedback – we couldn’t have done it without you. Here’s a quick rundown of everything we announced last month: Power BI dataflows GA Q&A update for dashboards New workspaces experience GA Paginated Report Builder New Power BI regions …

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Where in the world is the Power BI World Tour next?

The Power Platform User Groups (Power BI, PowerApps, and Flow) are excited to announce that they have added another stop to the Power Platform World Tour – They are headed to beautiful Vienna, Austria! We have several other stops planned in 2019 such as: London Madrid Copenhagen Sao Paulo Mexico City Vienna  Where would you …

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