Episode 120 – October 2019 News Roundup

This is episode 120 recorded on October 2nd, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the Microsoft Ignite schedule builder and a whole bunch of news items from the last month.
Show Notes
Power BI Report Server September 2019 Feature Summary
Template apps update (preview) is now available
Paginated Reports in Power BI September 2019 Feature Summary
Power BI Dataflows September 2019 Feature Summary
Announcing the Microsoft Business Applications October Virtual Launch Event
URL parameters for Paginated Reports are now available
What’s new for SQL Server 2019 Reporting Services RC1
What’s new for SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services RC1
User Voice Picks
Jason
The ability to message all Power BI users from the Power BI service
If you run a Power BI platform for a lot of users you should be able to send /push notifications to them. We are currently experiencing high fail rates and it would be great to alert all users that we’re busy looking into it.
John
Support creating calculation groups in Power BI Desktop
Support the creation of DAX calculation groups in Power BI Desktop – otherwise Power BI can only consume calculation groups created in Analysis Services, whereas it would be very useful to have this feature in any Power BI model.
Even just a simple text window with a script would be fine. You can clean up the UI later.
Thanks.