Welcome to the October 2021 update. Leaves fall, Power BI calls; and we are excited to release additional functionality and performance improvements for DirectQuery, optimization for the SWITCH function, and new Bitwise DAX functions.
Leia maisAs we move into the last third of the year, the Power BI team have had a busy summer working on delivering exciting innovation for you, our community. We have a number of sessions during Ignite delivered by experts which gives you a great sense of the capabilities you can try, deploy or scale for your organization. As with everything we do, we’re grounded on the mission of empowering every individual, team and organization make better data driven decisions. Let’s take a look what sessions you can put into your backpack this Ignite.
» Leia maisTry out the new integration (GA) that enriches Azure Purview, Microsoft’s catalog tool, with detailed metadata from your organization’s Power BI assets.
» Leia maisOn-premises data gateway (standard and personal mode) release for October 2021
» Leia maisAs mentioned in the June and July feature summaries, we are switching a vital component of Power BI from CefSharp to WebView2. We’re making this switch to better optimize our development and release process (which means we’ll be able to spend more time developing new features!). It also means that you’ll automatically get the latest security patches as the WebView2 team ships them instead of waiting for us to update Power BI Desktop. Please continue reading as we have some important announcements to make and recommended actions for you to take.
» Leia maisWe are thrilled to announce some exciting new capabilities for streaming dataflows in Power BI.
» Leia maisWe are excited to announce that XMLA endpoints on Premium Per User (PPU) now support Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication with service principals. This authentication option enables administrative applications to perform automated maintenance tasks and unattended service-level operations by using their own app identities, which is often a requirement for migration of existing tabular data models from Azure Analysis Services and SQL Server Analysis Services to Power BI Premium. For technical details, see the article Automate Premium workspace and dataset tasks with service principals in the product documentation.
» Leia maisWe are pleased to announce the preview availability of our new Unused Artifacts API. The initial version of this API returns a list of datasets that have not been used within 30 days for a specified workspace, and successive revisions will include other artifact types such as reports and dashboards.
» Leia maisWe happily announce Next Gen Premium Platform (Gen2) Generally Available! Optional autoscale charges will begin November 4th 2021
» Leia maisAD Security Group support is now available for Log Analytics for Premium workspaces. This allows Tenant administrators to control which Workspace admins can use the Log Analytics integration to log activities from their Power BI workspace.
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