We are excited to announce that XMLA endpoints on Premium Per User (PPU) now support Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication with service principals. This authentication option enables administrative applications to perform automated maintenance tasks and unattended service-level operations by using their own app identities, which is often a requirement for migration of existing tabular data models from Azure Analysis Services and SQL Server Analysis Services to Power BI Premium. For technical details, see the article Automate Premium workspace and dataset tasks with service principals in the product documentation.
» Read more We are pleased to announce the preview availability of our new Unused Artifacts API. The initial version of this API returns a list of datasets that have not been used within 30 days for a specified workspace, and successive revisions will include other artifact types such as reports and dashboards.
» Read more We happily announce Next Gen Premium Platform (Gen2) Generally Available! Optional autoscale charges will begin November 4th 2021
» Read more AD Security Group support is now available for Log Analytics for Premium workspaces. This allows Tenant administrators to control which Workspace admins can use the Log Analytics integration to log activities from their Power BI workspace.
» Read more We’re excited to bring you a new version of Power BI Report Server this Fall! With the September 2021 update, we have a variety of new enhancements, including line charts improvements, new formatting options for buttons, small multiples new feature, and new Model View.
» Read more Scott Sewel of the Microsoft Power BI CAT team will demonstrate the value that Power BI brings to the Power Platform with this month’s topic: Developing Power BI for Dataverse + Power Apps and Dynamics 365 CE. A great opportunity to see how all of these amazing products work together.
» Read more Welcome to the September 2021 update! It’s fall already and we have some fascinating new features to offer!
» Read more The Insights feature helps users easily explore and find insights such as anomalies, trends in their data as they interact and consume their reports.
» Read more We’re excited to share that the Power BI embedded analytics playground just got some new updates, including the ability to embed a report using your own embed token in the developer sandbox!
» Read more We’re pre-announcing a new capability to help organizations automatically install the Power BI app for Microsoft Teams for active users of the Power BI service. A new Power BI admin tenant setting is starting to roll-out allowing Power BI admins to control automatic installation. Automatic installation will start occurring in November 2021 for organizations with the setting enabled.
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