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Bulk Operations in the Admin Portal

Bulk operations enable Power BI admins to perform repetitive tasks efficiently. Perhaps you need to add a new hire as a workspace administrator to all workspaces of the Finance department. Or maybe you need to restore multiple deleted workspaces or recover a few orphaned ones. It is also imaginable that you needed to enforce a …

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Export to PDF and On-Demand E-Mail Subscriptions Now Available

For the second week in a row, we’re continuing to build on the capabilities we’d promised to deliver in the October blog post around managed distribution of content.  These two new features are both rolling out now across the globe, and you should see them available in your tenant by Feb 10th. Export to PDF The first …

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Capacity management improvement and more granularity in the Power BI Premium Capacity Metrics app

We’ve released a new version of Power BI Premium Capacity Metrics app, version 1.10.1.1, with new system metrics by workloads, and total active dataset size in memory metrics. CPU consumption by workload In the Power BI Premium Capacity metrics app, on the Resource consumption tab, you’ll see a new CPU Consumption chart. In addition to the overall capacity …

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2/7 Webinar: Personal Bookmarks in the Power BI Service

Join Power BI Program Manager, Charles Sterling, and Power BI MVP, Yana Berkovich, they walk you through how to use personal bookmarks in the Power BI Service and general best practices around using bookmarks in Power BI.  If you are not familiar with personal bookmark, as a report consumer, you will now be able to …

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E-Mail Subscription Time-Based Scheduling Now Available

Back in October, we announced that several new capabilities would be coming to Power BI for e-mail subscriptions.  Today, we’re thrilled to announce that one of the most requested subscription features is now available – the ability to set a time-based subscription schedule for your reports and dashboards in Power BI.  This new capability is available for all Power BI reports and dashboards, both in Pro and Premium subscriptions.      …

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On-premises data gateway management in the Power platform admin center

We are excited to launch the public preview of the Data Gateway feature on the Power platform admin center; This feature provides tenant admins with visibility into all On-premises data gateways within their organization and also management capabilities. On-premises data gateway Once you log in as a tenant admin, click on Data Gateway on the …

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Power BI Report Server Update – January 2019

Today we are happy to announce our January update of Power BI Report Server! This release has many highly anticipated features such as copy and pasting between pbix files, expand & collapse on matrix row header, and row-level security support. Read on to learn more about these and many other new capabilities we’ve added in …

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New monetization option for Power BI Custom Visuals through AppSource!

Until recently, AppSource offered only Power BI visuals that had no cost associated with them. In order to promote visuals containing advanced features and support a funding model for their development, we’re excited to announce that Power BI custom visuals with additional purchases is now available in AppSource!

Microsoft Power Series at the 2019 Power Summit Europe

In addition to the 20 tracks lead by the community, technical experts and Industry luminaries presenting at the upcoming Power Platform Summit in Amsterdam, the Microsoft Team will be there in full force presenting the Microsoft Power Series track– over 15 hours of deep dive and hands on content.  These sessions are included in both the  Power …

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Announcing Personal Bookmarks in the Power BI Service

Earlier last year, we announced bookmarking to be generally available in Power BI Desktop. Bookmarks are currently used by many report authors to share interesting insights, tell a story, and create intuitive navigation elements within a report. Since its introduction, one of the biggest requests we’ve consistently received from the Power BI community is to …

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