Power BI Weekly

Issue 4: 23rd April 2019

It's been a relatively quiet week this week - the Power BI team has only one announcement for us: E-Mail Subscriptions for Paginated Reports is Now Available. Elsewhere, Brett Powell has provided instructions on how to generate some handy Power BI Admin Datasets, Erik Svensen describes how to E-mail the selected record in Power BI with Power Apps and flow and include a CSV File with the records and Adam Saxton solves a problem we've recently encountered here at endjin: Fixing a connection issue with Azure Databricks in Power BI.

Issue 3: 16th April 2019

Plenty of updates this week as we've received our monthly summary of the latest Power BI Desktop Release. If you wanted to recap all the major announcements and updates from the last month, take a look at the Power BI Service and Mobile March 2019 Feature Summary. Here are the rest of this week's updates, including numerous regarding Power BI Embedded:

• Paginated Reports now supported in Apps in Power BI
• Privacy Levels for Cloud Data Sources
• New Power BI Regions in France and in Korea
• Take action from "Button clicked" in Power BI Embedded
• New Power BI Embedded code samples available in April 2019
• TLS 1.2 Recommended for Power BI Embedded applications
• Refresh Now API provides unlimited data refresh for Power BI Embedded
• Multi Geo is now generally available for Power BI Embedded

Also in this week's edition, the RADACAD team has announced you can now Copy a workspace, Publish to Multiple workspaces, Download all PBIX files and do much more in the April Edition of Power BI Helper, and Patrick Leblanc has shown us how to Create a custom KPI Card in a Power BI report.

Issue 2: 9th April 2019

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Without further ado, let's take a look at this week's numerous announcements and updates:

• Power BI dataflows general availability
• Creating Machine Learning models in Power BI (preview, premium and embedded only)
• Q&A New Dashboard Update
• New Workspace Experience General Availability (GA)
• Power BI Paginated Report Builder Now Available
• Azure Analysis Services now supported and what'scoming next with Paginated Reports in Power BI
• Power BI Developer community February & March update

Elsewhere, Marek Rycharski has had An in depth look at the Automated ML entities in Power BI dataflows, Gauri Mahajan has taken us through using the Power BI Funnel Plot for Outliers Detection, and Imke Feldmann has shown us how to Export data from Power BI using Microsoft Flow.

Issue 1: 2nd April 2019

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Power BI Weekly! Hopefully the welcome email and sample edition have enlightened those of you that have subscribed on what to expect from this newsletter. If you're joining us from the website and haven't yet subscribed, don't forget to subscribe back on the home page.

There are two announcements to share this week. There is now a slideshow option in the presentation mode on the Windows Power BI app, perfect for having reports on a loop in the background during presentations or public displays. Additionally, we've been told about the Power BI open-platform connectivity with XMLA endpoints public preview, a great feature to get some more flexibility over your Power BI datasets (premium only, currently).

Also in this week's edition, Mark Allington has written the first blog in a series about a way to obtain Affordable Power BI Premium for Small Businesses, and Melissa Coates has spoken about Three Ways to Use Power BI Dataflows. Continue reading for more great content!