This month’s update brings exciting opportunities for learning and community engagement, including the upcoming Fabric Data Days and the return of FabCon in Atlanta next spring. Notably, Power BI is making strides in mapping capabilities by transitioning from Bing Maps to Azure Maps, ensuring users have access to the latest features and support. Dive into …
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Read moreFind out which Power BI Community Data Story won for September and which Data Story received an honorable mention! We also announce next month’s Data Stories Gallery theme at the end of the blog.
» Read moreAs has been the case this entire year due to these unprecedented circumstances, Microsoft Ignite is going virtual. Join us between September 22nd and 24th. If you have not registered already, there’s still time so we hope you take a few minutes and Register Here. Power BI will be featured prominently during live sessions as well as several on-demand sessions. Additionally, you can join live Ask the Expert sessions to ask additional questions specific to your organization.
» Read moreThe ‘new look’ of the Power BI service is evolving again based on your feedback during public preview…
» Read moreLast week we presented at the annual Gartner BI Bake-Off session which was moved to a virtual setting this year. We are very excited to share our bake-off demos and key findings with everyone.
» Read moreWe’re pleased to announce two new actions are available for the Power BI connector in Power Automate. Now, you may easily leverage the Power BI export API for either Power BI reports or paginated reports in your workflows in Power Automate.
» Read moreThis month’s Power BI Dev Camp topic is “Writing PowerShell Scripts for Power BI”. Learn to write PowerShell scripts to automate common administrative tasks in a Power BI environment such as uploading PBIX files, patching datasource credentials and refreshing datasets. In this camp session, we’ll go beyond the basics and explore advanced techniques such as calling Invoke-PowerBIRestMethod, parsing together REST URLs and converting PowerShell objects into JSON to populate the body of an HTTP request
» Read moreDynamics and Power Platform services’ geographical availability.
» Read moreWe have several exciting updates rolling out this month for paginated reports! The updates include new authentication type support for Azure SQL DB and Azure Synapse, Common Data Service data source support, improved multi-value parameters support for DAX and more!
» Read moreMarco Russo will demonstrate how the updates in Power BI Desktop allow you to create calculation groups for reports published in Power BI Pro, by using the Tabular Editor external tool.
» Read moreStarting with SQL Server 2019 Cumulative Update (CU) 5, DAX-based clients such as Power BI can use SuperDAX functions and query patterns against multidimensional models to boost query performance.
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