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 moreIn 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”
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» Read morePower BI Live Connect reports allow the dataset to be stored in Azure Analysis Services (Azure AS) or SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) while the report itself resides in the Power BI service. Report interactivity can be enhanced by Power BI maintaining caches of dashboard tile data and report data for initial load. However, enterprise … Continue reading “Governance settings for Power BI cache refreshes from Azure Analysis Services”
» Read moreIn 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 moreIt’s time again to recap all the features and announcements we made in the month of March. Premium Multi-Geo General Availability Users outside your organization can edit and manage content with Azure AD B2B On-premises data gateway March update Public preview of XMLA endpoint Slideshow in presentation mode for Windows Power BI app Updates to … Continue reading “Power BI Service and Mobile March 2019 Feature Summary”
» Read moreTo kick off our series of posts this month we’re calling “New Feature Friday”, we’re pleased to announce the initial release of Power BI Report Builder, the latest companion application for Power BI that lets you author Paginated Reports. It is a free, standalone Windows Desktop application that can be downloaded from the Power BI … Continue reading “Power BI Paginated Report Builder Now Available”
» Read moreAutomated ML and Cognitive Services in Power BI enables compelling new analytics scenarios – with cognitive services you can perform sentiment analysis, pull key phrases from unstructured text, tag images with their content and more! And with Automated ML you can build your own binary prediction, classification, and regression machine learning models on your historical … Continue reading “Enabling Cognitive Services and Automated ML in your Power BI Premium Subscription”
» Read moreI’m happy to announce that starting today, the New Workspace Experience has reached General Availability (GA). With the new workspace experience, Power BI workspace admins can use security groups to manage access to workspaces, enable BI teams to create workspaces without needing to create an Office 365 Group, and to provide granular workspace roles to … Continue reading “Announcing New Workspace Experience General Availability (GA)”
» Read morePower BI is a platform that lets you meet the diverse needs of your enterprise user base, from self-service analytics to centralized report distribution. A critical part of this flexibility is the enterprise semantic model, which provides a secure, governed, and descriptive representation of your business metrics, available as a single source of truth across … Continue reading “Azure Analysis Services now supported and what’s coming next with Paginated Reports in Power BI”
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