Announcing refresh history updates for models utilizing XMLA endpoints
Models utilizing XMLA endpoints will reflect refresh details in the Power BI Service!
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Announcing long-term usage and performance insights (Public Preview)
Power BI now offers Workspace Administrators usage and performance insights by letting them configure collection of long-term historical data with rich template reports and near real-time log access.
» Read moreBest practice rules to improve your model’s performance and design v1.1
See the latest version of the best practice rules to improve your model’s performance and design!
» 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 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 moreCommunity and third-party tools for developing enterprise-level Power BI and Analysis Services models
Over the past few years, along with the high adoption rate of Power BI, also came the development of new tools by the Power BI community. Customers, partners, and individual users are contributing tools that improve the productivity of users creating models and reports in Power BI. It’s an evolution of a trend that started several years ago with tools that support developers using Analysis Services as a backend platform for their enterprise Business Intelligence solutions.
» Read moreUsing XMLA endpoints to change data sources in a Power BI dataset
The purpose of this article is to provide Power BI developers with a deeper understanding of the dependencies when updating data sources in a Power BI dataset through XMLA endpoints. Most importantly, Power BI maintains security-related data source information such as credentials and privacy settings outside the dataset, whereas Azure Analysis Services and SQL Server Analysis Services maintain these settings in the data model.
» Read moreObject-Level Security (OLS) is now generally available in Power BI Premium and Pro!
We‘re excited to announce object level security (OLS) is now generally available in Power BI Premium and Pro!
» Read morePower BI as a superset of Azure Analysis Services
Power BI is the leading platform for both self-service and IT-managed enterprise BI. We have taken great strides to bring AAS capabilities to Power BI. Power BI has inherited a large ecosystem of developers, partners, BI tools, and solutions built up over decades.
» Read moreAnnouncing public preview of Object-Level Security in Power BI
We‘re excited to announce object level security (OLS) is now available for public preview in Power BI Premium and Pro!
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