Azure Weekly - Power BI Weekly #250 - 20th March 2024

Power BI Weekly Newsletter Issue #250

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Welcome to the 250th edition of Power BI Weekly! SQLBits is upon us - I hope a good number of you have been fortunate enough to attend this year. If anyone reading this is attending, I'll be here all week, so please come and say hi.

Outside SQLBits, there's been a pretty significant announcement this week in the Power BI space, and that's the Upcoming Retirement of Power BI Premium P SKUs (for everyone apart from sovereign cloud customers). I can't say this is a huge surprise (what with the new Fabric SKUs) but it's something you should start planning for sooner rather than later.

Some other announcements this week include the On-premises data gateway March 2024 release, in which we've been told about the Service Principal (SPN) support for on-premises and VNET data gateways. We've also been given some Copilot Updates March 2024, containing some admin updates and the announcement of added support for Apps, allowing report consumers to interact with Copilot as they browse app artifacts.

Sticking on the Copilot theme, Chris Webb has written a helpful blog discussing How Much Does Copilot Cost In Microsoft Fabric?, pointing out how that's not actually the right question to ask. Alberto Ferrari has written the first SQLBI blog on visual calculations, introducing VISUAL SHAPE for visual calculations in Power BI. Finally, my colleague Paul has written a brilliant in-depth blog about How to Build Visually Appealing and User Friendly Navigation into Power BI.

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Data Prep

Covering: Power Query (M), Dataflows, Data connectors, AI Insights

Data Modeling

Covering: DAX (Measures & Calculated Tables/Columns), Relationships, Analysis Services, Composite models

Report Authoring and Interactivity

Covering: Layout and formatting, Visualizations, Interactivity, Themes, Mobile reports, Dashboards

Deployment, Security and Operations

Covering: Workspaces and Apps, Template Apps, Deployment Pipelines, Gateways, Security, Sharing, Licences, Admin operations, Developer Tooling

General

Covering: Cross-topic announcements & feature summaries, Whitepapers, Community events, Learning Resources & Certifications, Podcasts, Sample reports, End-to-end walkthroughs


Useful Links

  • Power BI Maturity Scorecard - 97% of the Fortune 500 are using Power BI. Only 20% of analytics deliver business value. How do you score?
  • Azure Weekly - Interested in Azure? Sign up to our sister newsletter Azure Weekly to receive all the week's Azure news
  • M language reference - Official Power Query M Reference
  • PowerQuery How - Alternative M Language Reference created by Rick de Groot, including improved function explanations, code formatting, practical examples and further reading
  • DAX Studio - Useful open source tool for executing and analyzing DAX queries, founded by Darren Gosbell
  • DAX Guide - Your go-to reference on the DAX language, created by the SQLBI team
  • Power BI Visuals Reference - An exhaustive list (as of Sep. 2018) of all Power BI native & custom visuals, placed into separate categories, again created by the SQLBI team
  • Report Theme Generator - A handy report theme generator created by the Power BI Tips and Tricks team
  • Power BI Theme templates - Detailed Power BI Theme templates for all the native visuals, created by David Eldersveld
  • Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star - Free, detailed eBook to get up and running with Power BI, written by Reza Rad
  • Power BI Architecture diagram - An informative Power BI Architecture diagram, created by Dustin Ryan
  • Power BI Whitepapers - A list of official Power BI whitepapers, covering Security, Premium deployment, Advanced Analytics and more

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