Episode 213 – Power BI November 2021 Feature Summary – part 2

This is episode 213, part 2 of 2, recorded on November 16th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the November 2021 Power BI updates including the new connectors for Azure Synapse Analytics and Google Sheets, Datasets hub improvements, and Support embedding a Power BI report that contains a paginated report visual.

Show Notes

Data connectivity and preparation

• Azure Synapse Analytics (New Connector) 
• Google Sheets (New Connector) 
• Azure Cosmos DB V2 (New Connector) 
• Delta Sharing (New Connector) 
• Google BigQuery (Connector Update)
• Cognite Data Fusion (Connector Update)
• Dremio Cloud (Connector Update)

Service

• Admin & governance
  • Datasets hub improvements
  • Azure Lockbox Support for Power BI
• Power BI Goals
  • Goal level permissions
  • Power Automate Integration
  • Moving goals around the scorecard
  • Showing/hiding and moving columns

Mobile

• Use QR codes with URL parameters (Android and iOS)
• Updated report filters (Android and iOS)

Embedded Analytics

• Power BI Embedded Gen2 
• Control embed token expiry
• Support embedding a Power BI report that contains a paginated report visual
• Explore your report in the developer playground

Visualizations

• New visuals in AppSource
• Editor’s pick update
• Find report sample files easily in AppSource
• Inforiver standard edition by Lumel
• Drill Down Map PRO by ZoomCharts
• Lipstick Bar Chart by Nova Silva
• Charticulator (version 1.1.2)

Other

• Automatic Page Refresh now supports DirectQuery for PowerBI datasets and Azure Analysis services