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Power BI April 2025 Feature Summary

There are a lot of exciting features this month, including mobile optimized report layouts, the best way to view data in the general availability of Power BI mobile apps, editing your semantic models with TMDL (Preview), and improved layouts for live editing semantic models. These are just a few of the updates this month.

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Microsoft a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms for 12 consecutive years

  We’re very grateful to our customers, our community members, and our partners for making Power BI what it is today.   Thank you.   The Power BI Team       Get the 2019 Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms report* to learn more.             *This graphic …

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Power BI Desktop February 2019 Feature Summary

The February update for Power BI Desktop has a preview of our new Key Influencers visual, which lets you perform key drivers analysis over your data with just a few clicks. We also have some major updates for Q&A with the addition of auto-generated questions and the ability to ask Insights related questions. Our partners and community have added a lot of new connectors and custom visuals this month as well. Lastly, to round things out, we have some formatting and visual improvements this month.

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Webinar 3/7: Tour of the new Power BI Premium Capacity metrics app by Swati Gupta

(Please note: Date change due to inclement weather in Redmond) Take a look at the new version of Power BI Premium Capacity Metrics app.  In addition to comprehensive refresh , query and eviction metrics for past 7 days, the latest version now offers system metrics by workloads, and total active dataset size in memory metrics. …

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Petabyte-scale Analytics with Power BI and Azure

As the volume and complexity of the data continue to grow exponentially, organizations need an analytics solution that is fast, secure, and easy-to-use, so they can extract critical insights from their data and take timely actions to maintain a competitive advantage. Power BI and Azure provide customers an unmatched combination for petabyte-scale analytics – we …

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Use Power BI API with service principal (Preview)

We’re thrilled to announce that you can authenticate to Power BI with service principal (also known as app-only authentication), available by end of week  in Public Preview. Service principal is a local representation of your AAD application for use in a specific tenant and will allow you to access resources or perform operations using Power …

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Bulk Operations in the Admin Portal

Bulk operations enable Power BI admins to perform repetitive tasks efficiently. Perhaps you need to add a new hire as a workspace administrator to all workspaces of the Finance department. Or maybe you need to restore multiple deleted workspaces or recover a few orphaned ones. It is also imaginable that you needed to enforce a …

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Export to PDF and On-Demand E-Mail Subscriptions Now Available

For the second week in a row, we’re continuing to build on the capabilities we’d promised to deliver in the October blog post around managed distribution of content.  These two new features are both rolling out now across the globe, and you should see them available in your tenant by Feb 10th. Export to PDF The first …

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Capacity management improvement and more granularity in the Power BI Premium Capacity Metrics app

We’ve released a new version of Power BI Premium Capacity Metrics app, version 1.10.1.1, with new system metrics by workloads, and total active dataset size in memory metrics. CPU consumption by workload In the Power BI Premium Capacity metrics app, on the Resource consumption tab, you’ll see a new CPU Consumption chart. In addition to the overall capacity …

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2/7 Webinar: Personal Bookmarks in the Power BI Service

Join Power BI Program Manager, Charles Sterling, and Power BI MVP, Yana Berkovich, they walk you through how to use personal bookmarks in the Power BI Service and general best practices around using bookmarks in Power BI.  If you are not familiar with personal bookmark, as a report consumer, you will now be able to …

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