Enhanced refresh with the Power BI REST API is now generally available
General availability announcement for Enhanced Refresh with the Power BI REST API. Perform fine-grain refresh operations for improved scalability.
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Deployment pipelines- Azure DevOps extension, multiple pipelines working together, Dataflows GA
This month we have released highly-anticipated features for deployment pipelines: Azure DevOps extension, to automate your deployments and pipeline creation using Tasks in your Azure pipeline. Multiple pipelines working together, to sync the connections between items managed in different pipelines. Dataflows GA and support for linked entities
» Read moreAnnouncing on-demand loading capabilities for large models in Power BI
Quickly hydrate your large models in Power BI Premium & Pro with on-demand loading!
» Read moreAsynchronous refresh now available in Power BI for public preview
Asynchronous refresh now available in Power BI for public preview. The asynchronous refresh REST API for Power BI brings built-in features for reliability, such as auto retries and batched commits.
» Read moreAnnouncing Public Preview of Hybrid Tables in Power BI Premium
We are excited to announce support for Hybrid Tables and Incremental refresh with real-time data in Power BI Premium to strike the right balance between query performance and data freshness. Now you can have blazing fast performance in import mode and the latest data changes in the data warehouse reflected in user reports without having to perform a dataset refresh.
» Read moreThe CustomData feature is now generally available in Power BI!
The capability to pass custom data for row level security is now available in Power BI Premium, Power BI Embedded, and Power BI Premium per User.
» Read morePower BI bolsters Azure AS compatibility with EffectiveUserName support
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 moreNew authentication option facilitates AAS migrations to Power BI Premium at a low price point
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 moreSecurity Group Support for Log Analytics Integration (Preview)
AD Security Group support is now available for Log Analytics for Premium workspaces. This allows Tenant administrators to control which Workspace admins can use the Log Analytics integration to log activities from their Power BI workspace.
» Read moreAnnouncing public preview of automatic aggregations!
Automatic aggregations are now in public preview! Unlock massive datasets without having to copy large volumes of data or manage data loads. Automatic aggregations are managed automatically by Power BI, accelerating time to insight, and reducing TCO.
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