Episode 286 – Power BI January 2025 Feature Summary

This is episode 286 recorded on March 12th, 2025 where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric January 2025 Feature Summary, specifically the Power BI section, including Storytelling updates for the PowerPoint Add-in, Semantic Model version history, TMDL view in Power BI Desktop, and more.

• Power BI
  • Copilot and AI
    • Unlock suggested questions from standard prompts in Copilot
  • Reporting
    • Explore this data: new entry point from a visual
    • Storytelling in PowerPoint – New reset behavior
    • Storytelling in PowerPoint – Supporting page up & down
    • Save to OneDrive and SharePoint: updated file picker (Preview)
    • Enhancement to Text slicer (preview)
    • Enhancements to Treemap visual
  • Modeling
    • Semantic model version history (Preview)
    • Edit your data model in the Power BI Service – updates (Preview)
    • Live edit of semantic models in Direct Lake mode with Power BI Desktop – updates (Preview)
    • TMDL scripting experience (Preview)
  • Data connectivity
    • New Snowflake connector implementation (Preview)
  • Visualizations
    • Drill Down Scatter PRO by ZoomCharts: The All-in-One Scatter Visual
    • Lollipop Chart by Powerviz
  • Other
    • Now in Power BI Desktop – OneLake catalog
• Platform
  • Folder support in Git
• OneLake
  • OneLake Catalog – Semantic model table & column description
  • Filtering workspaces in OneLake Catalog