Episode 218 – Power BI 2022 release wave 1 plan
This is episode 218 recorded on January 28th, 2022 where John & Jason review the Microsoft Power BI 2022 release wave 1 plan that covers the roadmap from April to September of 2022.
Show Notes
Power BI Goals is now a Pro Feature… as of the end of November
Get started with goals in Power BI (preview) – Power BI | Microsoft Docs
Power BI Premium
New Power BI Premium features help organizations accelerate the delivery of insights at scale, meeting the most demanding needs of an enterprise.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
| Data protection enhancements – highlighting centralized Power BI DLP policies | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Apr 2022 | – |
| Automatic aggregations | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | May 2022 |
| Hybrid tables | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | May 2022 |
| Power BI Report Server – May 2022 release | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | – | May 2022 |
| Power BI Report Server – September 2022 release | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | – | Sep 2022 |
Power BI Pro
Encouraging a data culture by helping everyone discover and collaborate on insights.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
| Create reports in Power BI service with new data sources | Users, automatically | Apr 2022 | |
| New and enhanced Power BI experiences in Teams | Users, automatically | Apr 2022 | |
| Quick measures using natural language | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2022 | – |
| Power BI datasets hub enhancements | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2022 | – |
| Contextual on-object interaction with Power BI visuals | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | May 2022 | |
| Power BI integration in Outlook and Office hub | Users, automatically | May 2022 | – |
| Quickly create a Power BI dataset or report from a table of data in Excel | Users, automatically | Jul 2022 | |
| View Power BI files in OneDrive and SharePoint | Users, automatically | Jul 2022 | – |
| Accessibility – improved slicer navigation | Users, automatically | – | Jul 2022 |
| Accessibility – improved table navigation | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | Jul 2022 |
| Accessibility – reflow to support 400x zoom | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | Jul 2022 |
| Accessibility – show visuals as tables | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | Jul 2022 |
| Accessibility – smart narrative descriptions | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | Jul 2022 |
| Improved Power BI administration and operations | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | Sep 2022 |
| Embed Power BI scorecards in PowerPoint presentations | Users, automatically | – | Sep 2022 |
| Administrative insights with long-term historical tenant activity retention, central metadata, and built-in reports | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 2022 | Sep 2022 |
| Improve My workspace governance | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | May 2022 | Sep 2022 |
| Chargeback reporting for Power BI Premium administrators | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Jun 2022 | Sep 2022 |
