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Power BI November 2024 Feature Summary

Welcome to the November 2024 update. We’re thrilled to introduce Copilot in Power BI Mobile apps, bringing AI to your fingertips for a smarter, faster way to explore data on the go. This month’s update also includes a new Path layer for the Azure Map visual, making geospatial analysis even more powerful by helping you easily map connections between multiple locations. We’re also introducing the OneLake catalog, the latest evolution of the OneLake data hub, offers a unified platform for data engineers, data scientists, analysts, and decision-makers to browse, manage, and govern data seamlessly—all from one intuitive interface.

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Announcing automatic scaling for dataset scale-out public preview

We’re excited to announce that we’ve reached the final milestone in our dataset scale-out public preview journey! We started the preview without auto-sync and with single read-only replica per dataset. A few months ago, we introduced auto-sync, and now Power BI can create as many read-only replicas as your Power BI capacity supports. Dataset scale-out is no longer limited to a single read-only replica per dataset.

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Power BI August 2023 Feature Summary

Welcome to the August 2023 update! We’ve got a new layout switcher, update to On-Object Interaction (preview), updates to the ORDERBY function, the Editor’s pick of the quarter for visualizations, and more. Continue reading for more details on our new features!

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Improving the communication performance of XMLA-based tools

We are thrilled to announce that we have made some significant performance improvements to the XMLA-endpoint communication in Power BI. Specifically, we have switched XMLA-based communication from plain text XML to binary XML and enabled compression for the .NET client libraries. Make sure you upgrade to version 19.61.1.4 or later to benefit from this improvement.

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Join us October 1-6, 2023, at the second annual Power Platform Conference in Las Vegas!

Register today and join me at the second annual Power Platform Conference, sponsored by Microsoft, this October in Las Vegas. You can discover, connect, and explore in-person across keynotes, sessions, breakouts, and more—all dedicated to helping you learn more about the newest features in the Microsoft Power Platform portfolio (Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, and Power Virtual Agents) and our latest innovations like Microsoft Fabric and Copilot. This is a can’t-miss opportunity to gain hands-on knowledge directly from Microsoft leaders and community experts!

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