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Power BI 2024 Holiday recap

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.

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Admin Monitoring for Tenant Admins

Power BI’s mission is to empower every individual, team, and organization to make confident decisions with data. With the increased focus on governance, compliance, and policy, customers need greater visibility into workflows and related activities. Tenant Administrators need out-of-box datasets and reports to understand tenant level adoption and deep dive on such details as active users and artifact activities. The Admin Monitoring Workspace delivers curated insights that help you better manage, administer and govern your tenant.

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Announcement: Microsoft Purview data loss prevention policies for Power BI are now generally available (GA)

DLP policies help you automatically detect sensitive information managed in your Power BI tenant and take risk remediation actions, to help you comply with governmental or industry regulations, such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Last April we announced the release of DLP policies for Power BI to public preview. We’re happy to share that these capabilities are now generally available!

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Microsoft named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and BI Platforms

We are thrilled to announce that for the sixteenth consecutive year, Microsoft has been positioned as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms. Microsoft has also been positioned furthest to the right for Completeness of Vision, and highest in the Ability to Execute in the Magic Quadrant for the fifth consecutive year.

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Power BI April 2023 Feature Summary

Welcome to the Power BI April 2023 Monthly Update! We are happy to announce that Power BI Desktop is fully supported on Azure Virtual Desktop (formerly Windows Virtual Desktop) and Windows 365. This month, we have updates to the Preview feature On-object that was announced last month and dynamic format strings for measures. We have additional features in Reporting, Data Connectivity, Service, Paginated Reports, Mobile, and Visualizations. Read on to explore all we have to offer this month!

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