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Power BI November 2024 Feature Summary

November 12, 2024 by Patrick LeBlanc

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.

Updates to the ‘new look’ experience and release plan

The ‘new look’ of the Power BI service is evolving again based on your feedback during public preview…

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Gartner Analytics and BI Virtual Bake-Off 2020: world population health analysis with Power BI

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September 14, 2020 by Justyna Lucznik

Last week we presented at the annual Gartner BI Bake-Off session which was moved to a virtual setting this year. We are very excited to share our bake-off demos and key findings with everyone.

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Power Automate actions for exporting Power BI and paginated reports now available

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September 14, 2020 by Christopher Finlan

We’re pleased to announce two new actions are available for the Power BI connector in Power Automate. Now, you may easily leverage the Power BI export API for either Power BI reports or paginated reports in your workflows in Power Automate.

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Join Us! Power BI Dev Camp! Thursday 24 September, 2020

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September 10, 2020 by Kelly Kaye

This month’s Power BI Dev Camp topic is “Writing PowerShell Scripts for Power BI”. Learn to write PowerShell scripts to automate common administrative tasks in a Power BI environment such as uploading PBIX files, patching datasource credentials and refreshing datasets. In this camp session, we’ll go beyond the basics and explore advanced techniques such as calling Invoke-PowerBIRestMethod, parsing together REST URLs and converting PowerShell objects into JSON to populate the body of an HTTP request

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How Microsoft is showing geographical availability of its services

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September 9, 2020 by Ramana Sridhar Vaidyanathan

Dynamics and Power Platform services’ geographical availability.

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Power BI Paginated Reports August 2020 Updates

We have several exciting updates rolling out this month for paginated reports! The updates include new authentication type support for Azure SQL DB and Azure Synapse, Common Data Service data source support, improved multi-value parameters support for DAX and more!

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Join us! Thursday 3 September, 2020 at 11:00 AM – 12:00 noon PDT with Marco Russo!

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September 2, 2020 by Kelly Kaye

Marco Russo will demonstrate how the updates in Power BI Desktop allow you to create calculation groups for reports published in Power BI Pro, by using the Tabular Editor external tool.

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Improving Power BI performance when querying multidimensional models

Starting with SQL Server 2019 Cumulative Update (CU) 5, DAX-based clients such as Power BI can use SuperDAX functions and query patterns against multidimensional models to boost query performance.

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Join us! Tuesday 1 September, 2020 at 11:00 AM – 12:00 noon PDT with Gil Raviv!

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August 31, 2020 by Kelly Kaye

Part 2 – We live in a changed world. As you stay safe at home, it’s time to power up your Power BI skills and join a walkthrough with Gil Raviv to build your own Power BI report that analyzes COVID-19 global spread.

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Release update for Sept 2020 release of Power BI Report Server

In October 2018, we committed to you three releases of Power BI Report Server each year, to be shipped in January, May, and September. We did this to provide transparency around the release timing and allow customers to plan their upgrade cycles accordingly.

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