With XMLA endpoints available in Power BI Premium and the recent release of .NET Core versions of the Analysis Services client libraries (ADOMD.NET and AMO) in public preview, you can start building modern cross-platform Power BI solutions across Windows, Linux, and macOS, and cloud-oriented environments.
» Read moreWe are excited to announce the that the enhanced capabilities added recently to the Power BI Snowflake connector are now GA, including the ability to connect to Snowflake without an on-premises data gateway as well as support for Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication and SSO in DirectQuery mode in the Power BI service.
» Read moreWe are excited to announced general availability (GA) of shared and certified datasets in Power BI.
» 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 moreWe are excited to announce the release of a new and improved usage report for Power BI reports in modern workspaces.
» Read moreWe are excited to announce the availability of a new Power BI API called the activity log, which enables Power BI service admins to track user and admin activities within a Power BI tenant.
» Read moreAnnouncing 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 moreBy using the Power BI management cmdlets, you can automate typical user and administration tasks with significantly less effort and complexity than with direct Power BI REST API calls. To illustrate this point, let’s take a look at Sirui’s original copyWorkspace.ps1 script, published in 2017 for the “Duplicate workspaces using the Power BI REST APIs: … Continue reading “Duplicating workspaces by using Power BI cmdlets”
» Read moreIn a comment to the recent announcement of Workspace Management in the Admin Portal, JohnR asked for an option to export the list of workspaces with the fields provided. This would help facilitate admin work across thousands of workspaces. A great suggestion! Perhaps you wanted to export the list of workspaces placed on Premium capacities, … Continue reading “Exporting the workspaces list from the Admin Portal”
» Read moreIn Power BI datasets that combine data from multiple data sources in a single M query, privacy levels define a how the data sources are isolated from each other. Restrictive isolation levels block data from being exchanged with other data sources, which can reduce functionality and impact performance but ensures that sensitive data does not … Continue reading “Privacy Levels for Cloud Data Sources”
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