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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.

Important update coming to Power BI Premium licensing

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March 14, 2024 by Kim Manis

With the exciting release of Microsoft Fabric and the Fabric capacity SKUs last year, we are consolidating purchase options and retiring the Power BI Premium per capacity SKU after January 1, 2025.

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Improved image mode in Power BI add-in for PowerPoint.

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March 11, 2024 by Maya Shenhav

Changing Power BI add-in as snapshot made easy and with more options. You can now change your live data to an image, that only people who can see the report will be able to see.

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On-premises data gateway February 2024 release

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March 6, 2024 by Nikki Waghani

We are excited to announce the February release of the on-premises data gateway!

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Announcing the creation of connected tables in Excel Online

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March 5, 2024 by Shannon Lindsay

You can now create tables in Excel online using data from Power BI semantic models.

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Announcing the New Data Connectors for Excel and CSV for Report Creation in Fabric

The new Excel and CSV connectors in Fabric allows you to connect to your favorite files and create Power BI reports in a few clicks.

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Updates and enhancements for reference labels

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February 29, 2024 by Miguel Myers

Uncover a host of updates and enhancements to our new card visual reference labels. This February 2024 update brings many great features including improved alignment of elements, new placement options for reference labels, a new tabular style, a transparency slider for the divider, new per-card customization, and enhanced layout control.

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Announcing the retirement of legacy Power BI Apps (pre-audiences)

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February 28, 2024 by Jadelyn Ray

The legacy version of Power BI Apps will no longer be supported starting May 2024. Learn how to upgrade to the new Power BI Apps version today!

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Announcing the deprecation of creation of machine learning models in Power BI using Dataflows V1

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February 27, 2024 by Ancy Philip

Announcing the deprecation of creation of machine learning models in Power BI using Dataflows V1

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Introducing Public Preview Copilot for Power BI chat-based capabilities: summarize, inquire, analyze

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February 26, 2024 by Carly Newsome

Copilot for Power BI has new capabilities in Public Preview! Users in view mode can now ask about insights, summaries, trends, and data questions and receive natural language responses, making analysis easier than ever.

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Improvements to Power BI apps, an increase in audiences and access control for hidden content

We recently made the following Power BI app improvements you asked for: the ability to copy item links from authoring view, a setting for granting access to hidden content, and increasing the maximum number of audiences to 25 (previously 10).

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