Add and Edit Power BI data sources on Power Platform Admin Center
Data Source management enhancements on Power Platform admin center
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Power BI May 2021 Feature Summary
It’s just over a week after MBAS. The storm has quieted down, and life is back to normal. This can only mean one thing – it’s time for this month’s update! Next to all the things we covered at MBAS there are more things happening, including a new preview of visual tooltips. Next to that, you can now quickly create reports from SharePoint lists and sensitivity labels are not inherited downstream. There is so much more in this update, so read on!
» Read moreGartner Modern Analytics and BI Platforms Bake-off 2021: Analysis of impact of COVID-19 with Power BI
Each year, Gartner invite vendors from the BI and Analytics Magic Quadrant to show how their product can help solve real-world problems and find insights in real-world data. In previous years we’ve looked into the opioid crisis in the USA, global happiness, and life expectancy. This year the impact of COVID-19 was the obvious candidate! There is a wealth of data available on the internet, and while Gartner gave us some direction for the business questions we would investigate, we could use data from any number of sources to do the analysis. In this blog post you can see what we built and we will explain how we built it.
» Read moreSmall Multiples (Preview) – Roadmap Updates
A lot has changed since we first released the preview of the small multiples feature — let’s take a look at what we’ve shipped since then, discuss updates to our roadmap, and explore opportunities to provide feedback.
» Read moreMore control over when Azure Active Directory B2B guest users appear in lists of suggested people
The new Show Azure Active Directory guests in lists of suggested people setting in Power BI Admin Tenant Settings helps organizations choose how easily users can share with external users.
» Read moreUsing Out-Of-Line Bindings in Power BI
XMLA endpoints in Power BI supports out-of-line (OOL) bindings, an advanced Analysis Services capability to temporarily change the data bindings of certain metadata objects in a dataset for the duration of a refresh command, such as data sources, partitions, and expressions.
» Read moreAnnouncing template apps one-click update
Announcing new capability that makes it easy for template app users to update their apps in one simple step!
» Read moreAnnouncing the new sharing experience
We’re excited to announce a new sharing experience that allows sharing reports via links. Previously in the old experience, we supported sharing reports by granting direct access. For the new experience, reports can be shared via links in addition to direct access sharing.
» Read moreAnnouncing support for backup and restore of Power BI datasets
e are excited to announce the public preview of Backup and Restore for datasets in Power BI Premium and Premium per User (PPU). You can now use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), Analysis Services cmdlets for PowerShell, and other tools to perform backup and restore operations in Power BI via XMLA endpoints in much the same way as you would for tabular models in Azure Analysis Services (Azure AS).
» Read moreQuery Plan Visual for Power Query Online
The Query Plan visual will allow you to understand what’s happening under the hood of your query with more details than the Step Folding indicator.
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