Episode 134: 2020 Foresight

This is episode 134 recorded on January 28th, 2020 where John & Jason walk through the Power Platform 2020 Release Wave 1 Plan in excruciating detail.

Show Notes

Power Platform: 2020 release wave 1 plan

Here are the key dates for the 2020 release wave 1.

Milestone	Date	Description
Release plans available	Jan 27, 2020	Learn about the new capabilities coming in the 2020 release wave 1 (April 2020 – September 2020) across Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform.
Early access available	Feb 3, 2020	Test and validate new features and capabilities that will be a part of the 2020 release wave 1, coming in April, before they get enabled automatically for your end-users. You can view the Power Platform 2020 release wave 1 early access features now.
General availability	April 1, 2020	Production deployment for the 2020 release wave 1 begins. Regional deployments will commence on April 3, 2020.

What’s new and planned for Power BI

Power BI Desktop

Feature	Enabled for	Public preview	General availability
Visual personalization for end users	Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically	Apr 2020
Composite models over Power BI and Azure Analysis Services datasets	Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically	Aug 2020
Drillthrough buttons	Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically	–	Apr 2020
Filter pane migration	End users, automatically	–	Apr 2020
Office ribbon in Power BI Desktop (General availability)	Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically	–	Apr 2020
Personalized visualizations pane	End users, automatically	Sep 1, 2019	May 2020
Hierarchy slicer	Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically	–	May 2020
Incremental refresh (General availability)	Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically	–	May 2020
DirectQuery support for AI visuals	End users, automatically	–	Jun 2020
Decomposition Tree (General availability)	End users, automatically	Nov 10, 2019	Jun 2020
Conditional formatting for totals and subtotals	Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically	–	Jul 2020
Automatic page refresh (General availability)	Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically	–	Sep 2020

Power BI Embedded

Feature	Enabled for	Public preview	General availability
Scale out with Azure capacity resources	End users by admins, makers, or analysts	–	Apr 2020
In-place app update	End users, automatically	Oct 2019	Apr 2020

Power BI Mobile

Feature	Enabled for	Public preview	General availability
Dark mode	End users, automatically	Jun 2020	–

Power BI Service

Feature	Enabled for	Public preview	General availability
Dataflows DirectQuery	End users by admins, makers, or analysts	Apr 2020	–
Synapse integration	Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically	Jul 2020
API to render a paginated report to any format (e.g., PDF, Excel)	Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically	–	Apr 2020
Copy and paste visuals into other applications	End users, automatically	–	Apr 2020
Email subscriptions with bookmarks	Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically	–	Apr 2020
Improved RDL feature parity for paginated reports in Power BI	Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically	–	Apr 2020
Migration tooling for paginated reports	Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically	–	Apr 2020
New look	End users, automatically	–	Apr 2020
New Power BI geos – Germany, China, Switzerland, and Norway	Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically	–	Apr 2020
Organizational visuals as out-of-the-box visuals	Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically	–	Apr 2020
Shared and certified datasets: (General availability)	Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically	–	Apr 2020
Data lineage	Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically	Oct 1, 2019	Apr 2020
Data protection	End users by admins, makers, or analysts	Oct 31, 2019	Apr 2020
Datasets larger than 10 GB in Power BI Premium	Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically	–	Sep 2020
XMLA Read/Write	Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically	–	Sep 2020

User Voice Picks

John

Disable or prevent Teams from autocreating App Workspace

Please introduce a global setting to Prevent Teams from creating PowerBi App Workspace automatically when creating a new Team. As the new Workspaces are detached from Teams/Groups this should be a setting to prevent the App Workspaces beeing clotted with empty Workspaces from all our Teams.

Jason

Add Quick Access Toolbar to new Ribbon, or at least Save/Undo/Redo

The new ribbon introduced as a preview in the Nov 2019 release is really good, but it got rid of the Quick Access Toolbar that gave us persistent access to the Save, Undo, and Redo buttons no matter what ribbon was showing.

Now, there is no save button, and Undo/Redo are in the Home ribbon only, so you cannot access them with the mouse from the View, Modeling, or other ribbons.