Power BI Service and Mobile June 2019 feature summary
June was yet another exciting month for Power BI! Read on for a summary of the announcements we made in both the service and mobile.
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Sending refresh notifications to others
Announcing support for sending refresh failure notifications to others in addition to the dataset owner. This feature enables dataset owners to monitor data refreshes more reliably and more effortlessly than before. It can help to ensure refresh issues get noticed and addressed in a timely manner.
» Read moreUnlock Petabyte-Scale Data Sets in Power BI with Aggregations – Upcoming General Availability!
With Power BI aggregations, organizations can perform petabyte-scale analytics with instant response times, exploring and analyzing trillions of rows of data and interactively extracting insights on the fly. Aggregations can dramatically reduce the cost of unlocking large datasets for decision making.
» Read moreAvoiding workspace loops by expanding navigation properties in the GetGroupsAsAdmin API
As a Power BI service admin, do you frequently need to list all workspaces in your tenant, and all reports, dashboards, and datasets in those workspaces as well? If the answer is yes, you probably had to build your solution such that in a first call, all workspaces had to be retrieved by using the GetGroupsAsAdmin API or the Get-PowerBIWorkspace cmdlet. It was then necessary to loop through the result set to make additional calls to get the reports, datasets and dashboards within each workspace by using the GetReportsInGroupAsAdmin, GetDashboardsInGroupAsAdmin, GetDatasetsInGroupAsAdmin APIs or the Get-PowerBIReport, Get-PowerIBDashboard, and Get-PowerBIDataset cmdlets respectively. Unfortunately, this approach is slow and inefficient. In a large Power BI environment, it is even impractical. There must be a better and more efficient way! The secret to avoiding these expensive loops is in the OData Expand Query Option ($expand)—and I am proud to announce the recent release of support for $expand in the GetGroupsAsAdmin API!
» Read moreAnnouncing the New Viewer Role for Power BI Workspaces
We’re excited to announce we’ve started to roll-out the Viewer role for the new workspace experience, perfect for users who need to view content within workspaces without the ability to modify it. Viewer role enforces RLS even for users browsing the workspace, its a replacement for ‘read-only’ classic workspaces.
» Read moreAnnouncing Paginated Reports in Power BI general availability
Based on the technology used in SQL Server Reporting Services, Paginated Reports brings a new set of enterprise reporting capabilities to the Power BI service. It enables developers and BI professionals to create and distribute highly formatted, pixel-perfect reports right alongside their interactive Power BI content, becoming the first cloud BI solution that combines the power of self-service BI with the needs and capabilities of traditional Enterprise BI scenarios.
» Read moreAnnouncing Power BI template apps general availability
Template app general availability announcement and latest features
» Read morePower BI Service and Mobile May 2019 feature summary
We’re almost halfway through the year and what a great start it’s been to 2019! The Power BI team continued to deliver some of the most anticipated features in the month of May. We were also heads down planning for the Microsoft Business Applications Summit, where we look forward to connecting with many of you there next week!
» Read moreReport Parameter Support for Paginated Report E-Mail Subscriptions are Now Available
The Paginated Reports team closes out May with another “New Feature Friday” blog post announcing one of the biggest enhancements to e-mail subscriptions in Power BI to date. With today’s update, Paginated Reports users can set up an e-mail subscription for themselves and their colleagues and choose the parameter values they wish to use for …
» Read moreEnhanced Attachment Support for Paginated Reports E-Mail Subscriptions is Now Available
“New Feature Friday” returns for the latest feature update for Paginated Reports. We’ve just rolled out support for five new attachment options for your e-mail subscriptions in Power BI. In addition to PDF, you can now choose one of the following new attachment types for your subscription(s) – PowerPoint presentation (PPTX) Excel Workbook (XLSX) Word …
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