I was recently testing out the new awesome dataflows in Power BI, and no matter what I did my dataflow refresh would fail. I was getting the same error no matter what I did. In order to find the error…

Today Microsoft released a preview of the Template Apps - A new experience that was designed for partners and ISVs to deliver streamlined analytics to their clients (If you still don't see this new ex…

January was a feature-filled month for the Power BI team! We kicked off this new year by announcing some of the highly requested features by our community and couldn’t have wished for a better star…

In this video, Adam looks at how you can add a domain to your Power BI tenant. This is done by adding the domain through Azure Active Directory or Office 365.

As the volume and complexity of the data continue to grow exponentially, organizations need an analytics solution that is fast, secure, and easy-to-use, so they can extract critical insights from t…

Do you need to find the GUID of a Dataset in Power BI? No need to use the REST API! Here's an easy way to find that Dataset ID :)

Hi there, I cannot believe it is already February. This year is already starting to fly by. Please find below my weekly Power BI Round Up. Export to PDF & On Demand Email Subscriptions As you can see …

(2019-Feb-06) Working with Azure Data Factory (ADF) enables me to build and monitor my Extract Transform Load (ETL) workflows in Azure. My...

In this video, Patrick looks at how to create a Power BI streaming dataset and use that to create a real-time dashboard. You can easily use something like PowerShell to push data into the Power BI streaming dataset. Demo files

We’re thrilled to announce that you can authenticate to Power BI with service principal (also known as app-only authentication), available by end of week in Public Preview. Service principal …

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…

For the second week in a row, we’re continuing to build on the capabilities we’d promised to deliver in the October blog post around managed distribution of content. These two new features are both…

We’ve released a new version of Power BI Premium Capacity Metrics app, version 1.10.1.1, with new system metrics by workloads, and total active dataset size in memory metrics. CPU consumption by workload In the Power BI Premium Capacity metrics app, on the Resource consumption tab, you’ll see a new CPU Consumption chart. In addition to the overall capacity … Continue reading “Capacity management improvement and more granularity in the Power BI Premium Capacity Metrics app”

Adam picks up on David Eldersveld’s blog about Power BI slicers versus filters and looks at if slicers are even needed now. The filter pane can satisfy a majority of scenarios. There are a few that it can’t. Which Power BI feature will you choose? David Eldersveld blog

In this weeks Power BI Roundup for 31 Jan 2019 I go over Time-Based scheduling for email subscriptions, Power BI Report Server & On-Premise Data Gateway.

Reading Time: 5 minutes One of the newer features in the Power BI Admin Portal is the ability to view all of a tenant’s Workspaces. As I was browsing through the collection of workspaces, I noticed several marked as Orphaned. What is an orphaned workspace, and how does it occur? What is an Orphan? An orphaned workspace is one that…

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Workspace version 2 has been available in Power BI Service for more than 6 months now. The new version introduced in August 2018, however, still many people don’t know what it is, and what is the diff…

Back in October, we announced that several new capabilities would be coming to Power BI for e-mail subscriptions. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that one of the most requested subscription featu…

These days, Dataflow (Power Query in Power BI Service) is a new feature that has been released. according to[1]: Dataflow is a Power Query process that runs in the cloud independently from any Power B…

In the last two articles, you have learned what is Dataflow and sample use case scenarios of that in Power BI, and also you learn how to create a dataflow. Before going any further in the dataflow dis…

Temple of DAX – 3D (@PhilSeamark) Curbal Tech News on Dataflows (@CurbalEN) Power BI Roadmap Announcements In The April 2019 Release Notes (@cwebb_bi) Business Applications Release Notes On-premises d…

Today morning (08:00 am Austrian time on a Sunday) I had the pleasure of presenting a session at the Virtual Power BI Days (2019-01 edition). Power BI Days are an event (mainly) organized by Jan Mulke…

This question has come up more than I can count, so I am doing a super quick blog post to answer it for folks. Many people are well aware of the limitations around exporting data in Power BI t…

We are excited to launch the public preview of the Data Gateway feature on the Power platform admin center; This feature provides tenant admins with visibility into all On-premises data gateways wi…

In this video, Adam shows an easier approach to get a Power BI Embed Token using PowerShell. This removes the headache of writing code or having to worry about an authentication token. Power BI Embedded Playground Invoke-PowerBIRestMethod Documentation GenerateToken for Reports in a Group PowerShell download

In this video, Patrick looks at the new Power BI Secure Embed. If you have been using Publish to Web internally, you need to look at this feature as it is the perfect replacement that adds a secure option for easy, frictionless, embedding.

In the previous article, I mentioned what is the Dataflow, how it can be helpful, and mentioned some of the use cases of it in real-world Power BI implementation. In this article as the second part of…

In this blog post, I am sharing a few things I learned while migrating some Power Query queries to dataflows.