We are thrilled to announce that we have made some significant performance improvements to the XMLA-endpoint communication in Power BI. Specifically, we have switched XMLA-based communication from plain text XML to binary XML and enabled compression for the .NET client libraries. Make sure you upgrade to version 19.61.1.4 or later to benefit from this improvement.
» Read morePower BI APIs can support you at any scale, but there is no one-size-fits-all API. The ExecuteQueries API is a great choice at small scale. For large-scale solutions, switch to XMLA endpoints and host your datasets on Power BI Premium.
» Read moreWe are announcing support for user impersonation using the EffectiveUserName connection-string property. This is truly exciting because it opens the door for mass migrations of tabular Analysis Services solutions that rely on EffectiveUserName-based impersonation to Power BI. It also opens new options for administrative tools and scripts to connect to datasets on Power BI Premium using different user identities! Impersonating another user can be as easy as specifying that user’s UPN on the connection string.
» Read moreWe 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 moreXMLA endpoints in Power BI supports out-of-line (OOL) bindings, an advanced Analysis Services capability to temporarily change the data bindings of certain metadata objects in a dataset for the duration of a refresh command, such as data sources, partitions, and expressions.
» Read moreToday, we are announcing General Availability (GA), along with several enhancements.
» Read moreGeneral announcement of read/write XMLA endpoints in Power BI Premium. List of client tools that natively work with Power BI Premium.
» Read moreIn Power BI, you can now use service principals to automate common tasks such as deploying models, performing a data refresh, and applying model changes. Permissions are assigned to service principals through workspace membership, much like regular user accounts.
» Read moreWelcome to the all-digital Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2020! As we kick off the event, we are excited to announce and showcase new capabilities to help our customers drive a data culture in their organizations.
» Read moreIt’s time to recap all the features and announcements we made for the Power BI service and mobile for the months of February and March.
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