Microsoft Power BI and Azure Purview better together – now Generally Available
Try out the new integration (GA) that enriches Azure Purview, Microsoft’s catalog tool, with detailed metadata from your organization’s Power BI assets.
» Les merTry out the new integration (GA) that enriches Azure Purview, Microsoft’s catalog tool, with detailed metadata from your organization’s Power BI assets.
» Les merThis deep dive session teaches campers how to use deployment pipelines for managing the application lifecycle of datasets and reports and for enabling CI/CD in a Power BI environment. The session explains how deployment pipelines are configured to create dedicated workspaces for developing and testing Power BI artifacts including datasets, reports, dashboards and dataflows.
» Les merAs mentioned in the June and July feature summaries, we are switching a vital component of Power BI from CefSharp to WebView2. We’re making this switch to better optimize our development and release process (which means we’ll be able to spend more time developing new features!). It also means that you’ll automatically get the latest security patches as the WebView2 team ships them instead of waiting for us to update Power BI Desktop. Please continue reading as we have some important announcements to make and recommended actions for you to take.
» Les merWelcome to the October 2021 update. Leaves fall, Power BI calls; and we are excited to release additional functionality and performance improvements for DirectQuery, optimization for the SWITCH function, and new Bitwise DAX functions.
» Les merWe are thrilled to announce some exciting new capabilities for streaming dataflows in Power BI.
» Les merWe 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.
» Les merWe are pleased to announce the preview availability of our new Unused Artifacts API. The initial version of this API returns a list of datasets that have not been used within 30 days for a specified workspace, and successive revisions will include other artifact types such as reports and dashboards.
» Les merWe happily announce Next Gen Premium Platform (Gen2) Generally Available! Optional autoscale charges will begin November 4th 2021
» Les merAD 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.
» Les merWe’re excited to bring you a new version of Power BI Report Server this Fall! With the September 2021 update, we have a variety of new enhancements, including line charts improvements, new formatting options for buttons, small multiples new feature, and new Model View.
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