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Earlier in the month on the Power BI blog, Lukasz Pawlowski, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, announced the availability of the Power BI report web part for SharePoint Online. So SharePoint Online enterprises are now able to take Power BI content and view it directly in SharePoint.

We note that the web part enables SharePoint authors to embed Power BI reports directly in SharePoint Online pages without any code required, perhaps further demonstrating Microsoft delivering on its ease of use proposition.

Get the details in the announcement here.

Source: Microsoft Power BI Blog, “Integrate Power BI reports in SharePoint Online,” by Lukasz Pawlowski

Our favourite framework has just turned 15 years old. Monday 13 February marked the anniversary of the launch of the first version of .NET, having been released as part of Visual Studio.NET.

Many of us here have been working with .NET since first beta, so we especially liked this short video interview with Anders Hejlsberg, lead architect of C# at Microsoft, sharing some stories and thoughts on .NET, open source, and the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2017: Happy 15th Birthday .NET!

Source: Microsoft

Microsoft is removing the 50MB limit for file copies and boosting to 500MB! Read about this and other updates to file management here.
Source: SharePoint Blog

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— Microsoft TechNet UK (@TechNetUK) February 17, 2017

Source: Twitter/@TechNetUK

UK Azure customers can now back up and restore files from data centres based in this country.

Microsoft has announced that Azure Backup and Site Recovery are now available from its multiple cloud regions in the UK.

“Both services are crucial for any firm storing information in the cloud. Azure Backup protects data on-premises and online, while Site Recovery allows customers to replicate on-premise physical servers in the cloud ‰ÛÒ so if their primary servers fail, they automatically switch to a secondary site to keep working,” says the announcement from Microsoft.

Read the article from Microsoft in full here.

Source: Microsoft News Centre UK