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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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Survey! Exploring visual styles for creators

Calling all creators! Back in August 2016 we introduced predefined matrix and table styles. We are exploring adding more predefined styles to more visual types to save you precious report creation time. We have created this survey to gather your feedback and help us define what these styles should look like.

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Connected PivotTable refresh in Excel for the web is now 100% available to Office tenants

We are excited to announce that connected PivotTable refresh in Excel for the web is now 100% available to all Office tenants. This feature is part of a broader investment to enable seamless and secure data sharing and collaboration with Power BI data in Excel for the web. If you missed the initial availability announcement, connected PivotTable refresh in Excel for the web allows users to work with PivotTables connected to Power BI in a web browser just like in Excel desktop. With the Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) label integration, you can control sharing while keeping your data secure in Excel as an MIP label applied to a Power BI dataset is inherited in Excel. Check out the initial availability announcement of connected PivotTable refresh in Excel for the web for more details on how to work with this feature.

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Help us shape the future of Power BI – Exploring the idea of Integrating Power BI with Microsoft Forms

Back in May 2021, we announced the integration of the new Power BI quick create experience within SharePoint, which enabled the SharePoint users to easily generate awesome Power BI reports by just one click. Currently, we are exploring other applications where we could potentially integrate a similar experience and one of the application that we are exploring is MS Forms. We have created a survey to compile feedback from our customers on a potential integration with Microsoft Forms. If your organization uses Microsoft Forms and/or Microsoft Power BI, we would encourage you to make your voices heard by completing this ~5 mins survey.

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