We 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 more 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 XMLA 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 more Today, we are announcing General Availability (GA), along with several enhancements.
» Read more General announcement of read/write XMLA endpoints in Power BI Premium. List of client tools that natively work with Power BI Premium.
» Read more In 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 more Welcome 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 more It’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.
» Read more We have plenty of resources to get ready for the upcoming release wave with confidence. Learn more about the upcoming Power BI features included in 2019 release wave 2 with our new overview video and guide, and understand key milestones in this process.
» Read more It’s time again to recap all the features and announcements we made in the month of March. Premium Multi-Geo General Availability Users outside your organization can edit and manage content with Azure AD B2B On-premises data gateway March update Public preview of XMLA endpoint Slideshow in presentation mode for Windows Power BI app Updates to … Continue reading “Power BI Service and Mobile March 2019 Feature Summary”
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