The enhanced compute engine is now enabled by default
The enhanced compute engine will be enabled for all new dataflows workloads
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Announcing General Availability of Query Diagnostics
We’re happy to announce the general availability of Query Diagnostics for Power Query in Power BI. If you haven’t yet tried out the preview feature, Query Diagnostics is a powerful new feature that will allow you to determine what Power Query is doing during authoring and in some refresh workflows in Power BI Desktop.
» Read more50+ New Features in Dataflows this month!
Over the past few weeks we have released several new features in Dataflows, allowing users to seamlessly ingest and prepare data that can be widely reused by other users across the Power Platform including lots of new Data Connectors, Data Transformations and other Power Query Online authoring enhancements.
» Read moreAnnouncing AI Premium Workload, Cognitive Services and Azure ML general availability
Today, we’re announcing general availability (GA) for cognitive services, Azure ML and the AI workload in Power BI Premium. The AI workload will now be enabled by default for all P-nodes, as well as nodes A3/EM3 and above, allowing the users of those capacities to use cognitive services in dataflows right away. A new workload setting is added to separately enable Automated ML, which remains in public preview.
» Read moreTrusted Third Party Connectors for Power BI
We’re happy to announce one of our most commonly requested features for custom connector support in Power BI – Trusted Third Party Connectors. As it stands today, the only way that you can use a connector with the ‘Recommended’ security setting is for it to be signed and distributed by Microsoft. Unfortunately, this stops a … Continue reading “Trusted Third Party Connectors for Power BI”
» 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 moreIncremental refresh & query folding
As part of our strategy to converge enterprise and self-service BI on Power BI as a single platform, we announced the public preview of incremental refresh last summer. While there is still more work to be done to get it to general availability, we have seen strong uptake of incremental refresh. Incremental refresh is a … Continue reading “Incremental refresh & query folding”
» Read moreAnnouncing General Availability of Custom and Certified Connectors for Power BI
I am happy to announce that Custom and Certified Connectors in Power BI are now generally available!OverviewAfter delivering the Power BI extensibility framework, our incredible community has…
» Read morePower BI expands self-service prep for big data, unifies modern and enterprise BI
New capabilities for advanced data prep, enterprise-scale modeling and reporting.
» Read moreData Connector SDK Developer Preview
As part of the Microsoft Build event, we are announcing a developer preview of the Data Connector SDK. You can begin to create your own custom data connectors. What are data connectors? Simply put, they are how you connect to data within Power BI. These are extensions on the connectivity/Mashup engine that powers the “Get Data” experience in Power BI and Excel.
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