Introducing the Power BI Activity Log
We are excited to announce the availability of a new Power BI API called the activity log, which enables Power BI service admins to track user and admin activities within a Power BI tenant.
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Sending refresh notifications to others
Announcing support for sending refresh failure notifications to others in addition to the dataset owner. This feature enables dataset owners to monitor data refreshes more reliably and more effortlessly than before. It can help to ensure refresh issues get noticed and addressed in a timely manner.
» Read moreDuplicating workspaces by using Power BI cmdlets
By using the Power BI management cmdlets, you can automate typical user and administration tasks with significantly less effort and complexity than with direct Power BI REST API calls. To illustrate this point, let’s take a look at Sirui’s original copyWorkspace.ps1 script, published in 2017 for the “Duplicate workspaces using the Power BI REST APIs: … Continue reading “Duplicating workspaces by using Power BI cmdlets”
» Read moreExporting the workspaces list from the Admin Portal
In a comment to the recent announcement of Workspace Management in the Admin Portal, JohnR asked for an option to export the list of workspaces with the fields provided. This would help facilitate admin work across thousands of workspaces. A great suggestion! Perhaps you wanted to export the list of workspaces placed on Premium capacities, … Continue reading “Exporting the workspaces list from the Admin Portal”
» Read morePrivacy Levels for Cloud Data Sources
In Power BI datasets that combine data from multiple data sources in a single M query, privacy levels define a how the data sources are isolated from each other. Restrictive isolation levels block data from being exchanged with other data sources, which can reduce functionality and impact performance but ensures that sensitive data does not … Continue reading “Privacy Levels for Cloud Data Sources”
» Read moreTailoring help and support for Power BI users
To ensure employee productivity and satisfaction with Power BI, enterprise organizations develop comprehensive product training, bolster their help desks, and invest in helping their user communities with internal forums to share ideas and best practices. But it can be a challenge to educate users about the availability of these organizational resources. The exciting news is … Continue reading “Tailoring help and support for Power BI users”
» Read moreBulk 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 … Continue reading “Bulk Operations in the Admin Portal”
» Read moreWorkspace Management in the Admin Portal
This has been a great year for Power BI service admins. In July, we shipped APIs and PowerShell cmdlets for Power BI management, and recently we also released a preview version of a Workspaces page in the Power BI Admin Portal (see the screenshot below). This page lists all the workspaces in a tenant and … Continue reading “Workspace Management in the Admin Portal”
» Read morePower BI Management cmdlets in Azure Cloud Shell
The Power BI Management cmdlets (see the announcement on this blog less than a month ago) are now available in Azure Cloud Shell. This is great news—especially for those of you who want to get…
» Read moreCelebrating our first community contribution to the Power BI management cmdlets
With great pleasure and genuine appreciation, we are announcing our first community contribution to the Power BI management cmdlets. Kudos go to Kenichiro Nakamura, who joined the effort in early…
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