In this week’s Tech Tip Thursday, our own Guy in a Cube talks to developers about how they can test their Power BI deployment in a custom directory before rolling changes out to production. He goes over the four steps needed, from creating the custom directory to adding the user to creating custom settings for your application.
» Les merWe are happy to announce the launch of SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services for Windows 10 Mobile. With this update you can seamlessly use on-premises data with the Power BI app on your Windows 10…
» Les merThere have been a few support calls asking why the Drill Down feature is missing from report visualizations. This feature was moved to the explore menu from within a report, in both the reading and editing view.
» Les merToday we’re happy to announce the public preview of solution templates for Power BI. This project is launching with two templates: a sales management solution template for Dynamics CRM and a sales management solution template for Salesforce.
» Les merWe have heard your feedback and we are pleased to announce that you can now upload files to Power BI up to 1 GB in size. We also have several more improvements to our RLS and Analyze in Excel previews and a brand new feature: Favorite Dashboards.
» Les merThe trick to getting, the DAX function, Username() to return the user’s User Principal Name (UPN) in Power BI, is that you have to configure Row-Level Security (RLS) on the dataset within the Power…
» Les merWe often say that Excel and Power BI are “better together”, but what does that really mean? Learn how adding Power BI’s world-class tools to your Excel analysis routine can save time, make your data easier to manage, and improve the quality of insights in our next webinar, Introduction to Power BI for the Excel user, on May 17, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. PT.
» Les merWe are pleased to announce improvements to the Power BI Q&A user experience and the start of the public preview for Power BI Q&A for enterprise gateway connected data sources – starting with support for SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services tabular models.
» Les merTwo of the new features in the Power BI Desktop April Update are Query Parameters and Power BI Template files. In this blog post, we will take a deeper look at the new capabilities and scenarios that these two features enable in Power BI.
» Les merToday we are excited to announce a major improvement to Excel reports in Power BI: Uploading a complete Excel workbook from everywhere, including local files on your PC or on other storage service.
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