This is episode 24 recorded on November 17th, 2017… where John & Jason talk to about the latest Power BI Desktop update, some new custom visuals, and some community contribution picks.

Power BI Desktop November Feature Summary

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-november-2017-feature-summary/

Stuff John is excited about in November’s Power BI Desktop

Rule based conditional formatting in tables
Cell alignment for tables
Visual ordering in the selection pane (z-order)
Lock report objects !!!!!!!
ESRI Plus subscription available….
Report options for slow data sources in Direct Query (good, but….)
New visuals – Image timeline, Social graph, Venn diagram, HTML viewer

Here’s the complete list of November updates:

Reporting

Analytics

Cell-level formatting for multidimensional AS models for multi-row card

Data connectivity – Single Sign-on

Impala connector – support for Windows Authentication
check out Episode 23 for more on SSO

Query editing

Add Column From Examples improvements

Community forum stuff:

Cool infographic that shows what is what in the Power BI space (features w/ license requirements)

https://www.fourmoo.com/infographics/power-bi-overview-infographic/

Power BI Desktop terminology & definitions

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/samlester/2017/04/12/power-bi-desktop-terms-and-definitions/

New Office 365 launcher showed up

Flow – Calculate running totals

Stacy Simpkins (@sharepointstacy) blog post about migrating SSRS from one SharePoint farm to another

- Includes version upgrades
- http://anothersharepointblog.com/migrating-a-sql-server-reporting-service-application

Episode 24 – November’s Power BI Desktop update & more