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Easily embed secure Power BI reports in your internal portals or websites

Power BI already has an easy way to embed Power BI reports into public websites with Publish to web and to secure SharePoint Online pages with the Power BI web part. However, embedding content into internal sites required advanced coding skills. Now, with the new secure Embed option, you can easily integrate your report with …

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Jan 10 Webinar: Text Recognition (OCR) using Cognitive Service, Microsoft Flow, and Power Apps by Leila Etaati

Join Charles Sterling and Power BI MVP Leila Etaati, in this webinar as she covers how Text Recognition (OCR) using Cognitive Service, Microsoft Flow, and Power Apps. Webinar details: Cognitive service is a pre-build AI tool that can be used with Microsoft Flow and Power Apps to create intelligence applications in an hour. In this …

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Webinar 1/8: How to effectively tell a story with your data and Power BI with Ruth Pozuelo Martinez

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The Power BI World Tour is back in 2019 as the Power Platform World Tour!

It’s all the Power BI content you’ve come to expect from Microsoft team members, MVPs, Champions, and Subject Matter experts but this year’s Power Platform World Tour will now include PowerApps and Microsoft Flow content. Power Platform World Tour will bring together thousands of users in cities all around the world to learn and network …

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Happy New Year from Power BI Desktop!

Happy New Year ! With over 150 features released, 2018 has been a prolific year for Power BI Desktop! To cap off this successful year, our team put together a fun video, showcasing our pick for the 5 favorite releases of 2018: Report page tooltips [March] Web by example [May] Composite models [July] + aggregations [September] …

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Power BI Service and Mobile November & December Feature Summary

We saved the best for last. The final stretch of 2018 was incredible for the Power BI team. We announced some of our biggest previews, rolled out new features, and improved existing functionality across service and mobile based on your feedback. Before we ring in the new year, here’s a quick recap, in case you …

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On-premises data gateway December update is now available

We are excited to announce that we have just released the December update for the On-premises data gateway. Here are some of the things that we would like to highlight with this month’s release: – Enhancements in SAP BW connector – The On-premises data gateway now includes the December version of the mashup engine The …

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Workspace Management in the Admin Portal

This has been a great year for Power BI service admins. In July, we shipped APIs and PowerShell cmdlets for Power BI management, and recently we also released a preview version of a Workspaces page in the Power BI Admin Portal (see the screenshot below). This page lists all the workspaces in a tenant and …

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Power BI Premium Capacity Metrics app makes navigating and viewing metrics at workspace level easier!

The Power BI Premium Capacity Metrics (version 1.10) app makes navigating and viewing metrics at workspace level easier.

Power BI Desktop December 2018 Feature Summary

December is a huge month for us in terms of accessibility. With this release, the entire product supports screen readers, keyboard navigation and high contrast for both report consumption and report creation. We are also previewing one of the most asked for features related to Q&A, support for live connect! We also have lots of smaller improvements across the product, such as customizable tooltips for buttons and a larger DAX formula bar.