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We’re excited to announce more updates to the Power BI Tabs in Microsoft Teams. These updates help you create tabs faster, allowing you to use links to configure tabs, and helps open a default page and set default filters for the items you share through tabs. Note: These experiences are starting to roll out and should be available in the next two weeks for commercial cloud customers.  When you add a Power BI Tab in Teams, you’ll see the new simplified tab UI. Just press  Save  to add the tab. When the tab loads, you’re greeted with a new landing page where you can  paste a link.  You can  browse workspaces  to select content, too. If you’re new to Power BI, you can even click through to  create a report.   You can paste links to interactive and paginated reports, scorecards, and organizational apps. Many kinds of links are supported, these include: Simple links like those from the browser address bar Sharing links from the Share Dialog Sharin...

We’re excited to announce that you can now embed entire Power BI organizational apps in Microsoft Teams tabs. Until now, this has been one of the top feature requests for Power BI integration with Microsoft Teams. It helps teams and organization put the full Power BI org app experiences directly where people work every day. By adding Org apps in channels and meetings, you enable everyone to access the data they need. We’ve started to roll out the experience to commercial cloud customers and expect it to be available for everyone in the next week or two. Let’s look at the new experience and its benefits. Picking an entire Power BI organizational app to embed in Microsoft Teams To embed a Power BI organizational app, add a Power BI tab to a channel or meeting. Go to the Apps pivot in the selection you and notice the  new checkbox next to the app name . When you check the box, you’re choosing to embed the entire organizational app in the Power BI tab.  If you don’t see an app in ...

It’s January and we’re excited to start the year on the right foot by announcing enhancements to the Power BI in Microsoft Teams experiences. Today we’re announcing three new capabilities that are starting to roll out, and a hint about things to look forward to in the coming weeks.   Rich preview cards for Chat in Teams We’re committed to helping users communicate insights faster. The Chat in Teams experience is getting better because we’re updating Chat in Teams links to be easier to read, shorter, and to show rich preview cards. When you use Chat in Teams for a report or from a visual, you’ll notice the link now looks like a regular Power BI link, not a Microsoft Teams link. The link is still a deep link that takes users directly to the exact data they selected on the specific page of a report. Clicking the link opens the report in a browser window. The experience gets even better when you have the Power BI app installed in Teams. The link will automatically generate a rich previ...

Many organizations use modern collaboration in Microsoft Teams to enable faster decision making and action. Power BI is continually making it easier for organizations to roll-out Power BI experience in Teams, so users can discover and use data where they work. This helps people get notified faster, get richer link sharing experiences, and access all their data without leaving Microsoft Teams. After a  successful launch of automatic installation focused on new users , we’re excited to announce that we’re ready to expand automatic installation to active Power BI users, who meet the criteria as defined below. To enable organizations to easily roll-out Power BI in Teams, we’re expanding automatic installation: Power BI will automatically install the Power BI app for Teams for users when they visit the Power BI service. Power BI admins can choose not to auto-install through the existing Power BI tenant setting. The automatic installation for new users is currently in effect (since Novem...

How we work has changed considerably – every process and action produce data, individuals and teams are now expected to use that data to make the best possible decisions, and organizations need to enable everyone to participate in data driven decision making. As many of you that enthusiastically participate in our preview programs know, we’ve been steadily making progress on the Power BI app in Teams program. I’m happy to announce today that the Power BI App for Microsoft Teams is Generally Available . The simplified and richly integrated Power BI app for Microsoft Teams makes using data easy and approachable for everyone, no matter how skilled.   Power BI app for Microsoft Teams With this availability, users can easily find data in Power BI, use our fully featured experiences without leaving Microsoft Teams, and bring data and insights into their chats, meetings, calendar invites, and of course teams. By making data more accessible, organizations can make it ea...

This article describes how you can install, pin, and interact with Power BI right inside Microsoft Teams. The Power BI personal app brings the entire basic Power BI service experience to Microsoft Teams. The Power BI app in Microsoft Teams is one of the ways that you can   collaborate with Power BI in Teams . The app is your personal experience of Power BI. It's as if the Power BI service lives inside Microsoft Teams. After you install it, you can do almost everything in Microsoft Teams that you can do in the Power BI service: Create, view, and edit dashboards, reports, and apps. Create and participate in workspaces. Share content, either through email or through Microsoft Teams. And there's a feature in the Power BI app in Teams that you don't see when you view the Power BI service (app.powerbi.com) in a web browser. On the Power BI home page in Teams, you can   see all the Power BI tabs you've viewed , everywhere in Teams. There are a few features that you can only ac...