Miscellaneous updates to Power BI Service

In addition to subscriptions, Microsoft sneaked out (well, announced) a raft of new features for Power BI Service in January.

New features for Power BI Report Server

If you have a Power BI Premium licence, you can use Power BI Report Server to host your own reports (rather than having to store them in the cloud, with the concomitant worries about data security).  Report Server now includes the following features:

A summary of the new features introduced into Report Server - you can see more details here.

Embedding reports

You can now embed Power BI reports on web pages easily.  Just choose to save the report as embedded:

Choose this option from the File menu to embed a report.

Here's the dialog box which appears:

Just copy the HTML into your web page to show your report!

I pasted this onto a page of our website, which now shows this:

Very straightforward!

However ... the number of tokens you can generate for embedded reports is not infinite.  This is what Microsoft say:

I tried following some of these links, and quickly got bogged down in Microsoft's insanely complicated licensing rules.

However, the same webpage says this:

Details of who will be able to see your embedded reports.

So you can't create a report and share it freely with the world on a public website - the intention is clearly to allow corporate paying customers to embed reports on their internal websites.

Personal bookmarks

You can now create your own bookmarks in Power BI Service, to remember the state of a report:

Want to store (and later retrieve) the exact current filters, etc, for a report? Create a bookmark.

You can make any bookmark the default view:

Tick the box to make this the default view for this report.

You can see details on all of these updates (and some more of less general interest) here.