Announcing Admin APIs to Determine Access Rights (Public Preview)
Public preview announcement of access rights admin APIs
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Heads up: breaking change coming to Power BI PowerShell Cmdlets
Breaking change to Power BI PowerShell cmdlets. Need to upgrade module to 1.0946 or later
» Read moreAutomate deployments with deployment pipelines API (preview)
Deployment pipelines can be automated! With the first set of APIs, you can automate deployments or integrate the deployment process into familiar tools, like Azure Pipelines or GitHub Actions.
» Read moreAnnouncing Power BI in Jupyter notebooks
We’re excited to announce the release of Power BI in Jupyter notebooks. You can now tell compelling data stories with Power BI in Jupyter notebooks. Get your Power BI analytics in a Jupyter notebook with the new powerbiclient Python package. The new package lets you embed Power BI reports in Jupyter notebooks easily. You’ll be … Continue reading “Announcing Power BI in Jupyter notebooks”
» 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 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 morePower BI April 2021 Feature Summary
Welcome to the first Power BI feature summary of the Spring! In this update we have an exciting new preview for the Power Automate visual! Also, the ongoing previews (Small Multiples and DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Services) are getting some new features. Next to that, we are presenting huge improvements to the shapes in Power BI Desktop and we are introducing a new, easier, way to share reports. To top it off, enhancements to Sensitivity Labels provide for even better protection of your data. Of course, there is much more, so read on!
» Read moreSupport of external tools in Power BI Desktop is GA
We are excited to announce General Availability (GA) of support for external tools within the Power BI Desktop authoring experience so that you can leverage a wide range of additional semantic modeling features, DAX query/expression optimization and authoring utilities, and application lifecycle management (ALM) capabilities in Power BI Desktop to boost your productivity as a world-class Power BI solution creator.
» Read moreAnnouncing the new Power BI embedded analytics playground (preview)
Today we’re excited to announce the new Power BI embedded analytics playground. The new playground is the home for Power BI embedded analytics, where you can get hands-on coding experience, embed your own reports, and interact with our client APIs to see instant results. In addition, you’ll find there our interactive showcases to get inspiration … Continue reading “Announcing the new Power BI embedded analytics playground (preview)”
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