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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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BI Bake-Off at Gartner Data and Analytics Summit 2019

Today we presented at the 5th annual Gartner BI Bake Off session at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in Orlando, Florida and we are very excited to share the report with everyone. The topic this year is loneliness data from the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Economist Same as last year, a little bit of background: …

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On-premises data gateway March update is now available

We are happy to announce that we have just released the March update for the On-premises data gateway (version 3000.2.52) Note: The latest March build number is now 3000.2.52(was previously 3000.2.47). In this latest release, we fixed a bug which was causing some of the scheduled refreshes via the gateway to intermittently fail with timeout …

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Microsoft at Gartner Data and Analytics Summit 2019 in Orlando, FL

Next week, 4,000+ data and analytics leaders will gather in Orlando, Florida for the 2019 Gartner Data and Analytics Summit. Microsoft is very excited to sponsor this event and bring some of our best experts to meet with attendees to discuss how to drive data and analytics into the core of your business. We will …

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Power BI Desktop March 2019 Feature Summary

This month we have a lot of exciting announcements. Two of our most requested features on UserVoice are releasing this month, heat maps and single select slicers. Additionally, we are making our complete facelift of the modeling view generally available. New DAX functions and improvements to existing features, such as buttons and the selection pane, round out this update.

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Easy access to AI in Power BI (Preview)

With sophisticated models and scalable compute, Artificial Intelligence becomes a realistic tool for data analysts. Power BI helps you get insights from your data. Now, with access to a set of models from Azure Cognitive Services and your custom models in Azure ML, you can easily enrich those insights with AI. Cognitive services in Power BI gives you access …

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3/15 Webinar: Using App-only Authentication with Power BI Embedding

In this live event Microsoft Power Platform MVP, Ted Pattison, will teach you how to leverage the new app-only authentication support currently in preview for Power BI embedding and the Power BI Service API. Ted will also discuss emerging best practices with Microsoft’s App-Owns-Data model and explain why you should migrate away from older application …

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Connect with the Microsoft product team in Amsterdam at Power Summit

In addition to the 20 tracks lead by the community, technical experts and Industry luminaries presenting at the upcoming Power Platform Summit in Amsterdam, the Microsoft Team will be there in full force presenting the Microsoft Power Series track– over 15 hours of deep dive and hands on content.  These sessions are included in both the  Power …

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Azure AD B2B Guest users can now edit and manage content in Power BI to collaborate better across organizations

Today, we’re excited to announce that Power BI is making it easier for Azure AD B2B Guest users to collaborate with colleagues across organizational boundaries. Rolling out to production this week is a new capability that allows external Guest users to edit and manage content in workspaces, get the full home experience, and to do …

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Announcing Power BI Multi Geo General Availability

We are happy to announce the General Availability (GA) of Multi Geo for Power BI Premium! With Multi Geo going GA, you can extend your Power BI tenant to store your users’ data in the geographies covered in the Microsoft Trust Center, except for Power BI Germany, Power BI China operated by 21Vianet or Power …

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