Episode 203 – Power BI August 2021 Feature Summary

This is episode 203 recorded on August 27th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the August 2021 Power BI updates, including Default sensitivity label policy in Power BI desktop, Leverage automatic aggregations to enhance performance over Direct Query datasets, Power BI REST API support for DAX Queries in preview, and Detailed historical activity information for Premium datasets. Whew.

Show Notes

Reporting

• Customize shape formatting
• X-axis constant line improvements
• Default sensitivity label policy in Power BI desktop  

Analytics

• Sharing Q&A synonyms

Modeling

• New way of expressing Date and DateTime values
• Evaluation configuration settings

Data connectivity and preparation

• One Dataflow Connector (Connector Update)
• Automy Data Analytics (New Connector)
• Azure Databricks (Connector Update)
• Dremio (Connector Update)
• Google BigQuery (Connector Update)
• Quickbase (Connector Update)

Service

• Sensitivity labels for paginated reports
• Leverage automatic aggregations to enhance performance over DirectQuery datasets
• Power BI REST API support for DAX Queries
• Detailed historical activity information for Premium datasets

Mobile

• New mobile report footer

Visualizations

• New Power BI visuals’ store experience
• New visuals
• Timeline by Queryon
• Drill Down Graph PRO by ZoomCharts
• BIpm custom visual by ProcessM
• Editor’s pick