Azure Weekly - Power BI Weekly #278 - 1st October 2024

Power BI Weekly Newsletter Issue #278

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Welcome to the 278th edition of Power BI Weekly! It was FabCon last week - I hope those of you that went had a great time. Naturally, there have been a lot of announcements in both the Fabric and the Power BI space. The usual summary blog can be found here: European Fabric Community Conference 2024: Building an AI-powered data platform with the more granular details found, as ever, on the Fabric blog (there are 7 pages of updates just from the last week!). My personal highlights on the Fabric side are the announcements around Python User Data Functions in Data Pipelines (making it easier to call your custom Python functions in your pipeline) and Organizing your tables with lakehouse schemas (giving extra flexibility to how you structure your Lakehouse objects). Great new features (both in Preview)!

On the Power BI side, arguably the biggest news is that Dark mode is now available in Power BI Desktop, which has been a feature request probably just as long as Power BI Desktop has been around! I think it'll take a bit of getting used to, even for those who have been asking for it... We've also been told about the Enhanced Report Creation in the Power BI Service with Copilot, and been told how to Connect your data to the real world with the power of NFC and the Power BI Mobile Apps. There have also been the monthly feature summaries for both Power BI Report Server and plain old Power BI, with the standard Power BI feature summary elaborating on a couple of the points mentioned in the FabCon blog: including the new ability to have Multiple org apps per workspace (wahoo!) and being able to Live edit semantic models in Direct Lake mode with Power BI Desktop, bringing the familiar model development experience back to Desktop instead of having to do it in the browser. Much more convenient.

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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


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  • 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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