Power BI gateways – May Update
This release includes support for new data sources and an update to the UPN Mapping feature.
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Power BI Desktop May Update Feature Summary
This month we are adding some hotly requested features to Power BI Desktop including customizable tooltips, conditional formatting in tables, quick calculations and new connectors.
» Read moreTech Tip Thursday: authentication with Analysis Services live connections
In this week’s Tech Tip Thursday, our own Guy in a Cube breaks out his whiteboard to talk about how authentication works with Analysis Services via the Power BI Gateway – Enterprise. He outlines setting up your data source in the enterprise gateway, and how to ensure that your user and your domain are correctly configured in Analysis Services and Active Direcory with the credentials needed to access your data in Power BI.
» Read moreWebinar 5/31: DAX best practices from the field, by Paul Turley
In this week’s Power BI Community Webinar Series, presenter Paul Turley explores DAX fundamentals, and goes into some tips and tricks for defining and using KPIs and natural language to get insights from your data. Join us on May 31 at 1:00 p.m. PT!
» Read morePower BI & Azure ML Better Together
There has been a lot of interest in the analytics community to be able to visualize the output of an Azure Machine Learning model inside Power BI. To add to the challenge, it would also be great to operationalize Azure ML models through the Power BI service. Imagine you could have Power BI regularly bringing in the latest output of your fraud model or the sentiment for recent Tweets about your products. The following tutorial will outline a proposed approach for doing just that.
» Read more[Webinar] – Power BI Q&A – Best Practices
Power BI Q&A enables users to ask natural language questions and get answer in the form of visuals or reports automatically created with the data that best answers their question. Join us for…
» Read morePower BI and Surface Hub Help Local Broadcast Station Bring Election Results to Life
We’re living in an increasingly data-driven world, where the way we communicate and share information is rapidly evolving. Recently, I’ve been spending time with journalists who are at the center of this transition. They are striving to inform their readers and viewers and need to use data more and more to support their reporting. We’re exploring how Microsoft Power BI, as a communication tool, can transform the way journalists present information to their audience.
» Read moreWebinar 5/24: Data Preparation is the Keystone, by Reza Rad
In this community led demo-heavy webinar Power BI MVP Reza Rad shows how to use Power BI to prepare your data to make analysis and reporting a breeze!
» Read more2 Dashboard Makeover tips to improve your visuals
On May 12, 2016, the Power BI team held the first live Dashboard Makeover, and it turned out to be one of our most popular webinars of the year! If you missed it live, the Dashboard Makeover webinar is available in its entirety on-demand, and we’ve got a few highlights from the presentation.
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