Season’s greetings, Power BI Community! As we wrap up an incredible year, the Microsoft Power BI team is taking a break for December. All planned updates will roll out in January including the next Power BI Desktop release. As we approach another year of innovation, let us take a moment to reflect on some key highlights from 2024.
Read moreIn November 2023 release we added a new fourth view in public preview to Power BI Desktop, the DAX query view! The DAX query view gives you the ability to write, edit, and see the results of Data Analysis Expressions or DAX queries on your semantic model. Finally, you can now take advantage of the existing DAX queries syntax while working with your semantic model without leaving Power BI Desktop.
» Read moreIntroducing reference labels: the new feature that will rock your new cards! Now you can add custom labels to your new cards that show amazing information and comparisons.
» Read moreWe’re excited to announce the latest addition to Power BI’s new slicer experience – the button slicer! Crafted with your feedback and participation in mind, this innovative tool offers unparalleled customization and ease of use.
» Read moreIntroducing the public preview of the new Explore feature, where users have a lightweight and focused experience to explore their data. Similar to exporting and building a PivotTable in Excel, now, directly within Power BI users can quickly launch Explore to begin creating a matrix/visual pair to get the answers they need without all the distractions and extra complexity of reports.
» Read moreWe are thrilled to announce the general availability of Microsoft Fabric and the public preview of Copilot in Microsoft Fabric, including the experience for Power BI. With the launch of these next-generation analytics tools, you can empower your data teams to more easily scale to meet the demand of the business. You can create a well-orchestrated data estate that minimizes data fragmentation and makes it easy for business users to find continually up-to-date, accurate data. And it even enables business users to explore and consume governed data, helping them answer questions on their own.
» Read moreWelcome to the November 2023 update. We’ve got a lot of great features this month including DAX Query view, Semantic Model Scale-out, and Advanced Filtering for Paginated Reports. There is more to explore, please continue to read on.
» Read moreDatasets are being renamed to semantic models in Power BI and Fabric. This will make the product clearer and more usable and reflects the immense progress that Power BI datasets have made in becoming an enterprise-grade semantic modeling technology. The semantic model name will help drive awareness of the unparalleled capabilities provided.
» Read moreWelcome to November and a new version of the on-premises data gateway! We are excited to announce a new feature for allowlisting which tenants can register an on-premises data gateway on a machine. Read the post to find out more.
» Read moreThe “GetCapacityTenantSettingOverrides” API is a response to the concerns raised by tenant administrators. It offers transparency and insight that administrators need to govern Fabric.
» Read moreWelcome to October! We have a few new announcements this month, so be sure to read until the end! We are especially excited to announce a new PowerShell cmdlet for adding a gateway to an existing cluster.
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