Episode 288 – Power BI February 2025 Feature Summary

This is episode 288 recorded on March 19th, 2025 where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric February 2025 Feature Summary, specifically the Power BI section, including a new baseline version of Power BI Desktop, Copilot changes for Power BI, a trick to get conditional formatting for Visual Calcs working, and performance improvements for Direct Lake mode.

• Power BI
  • General
    • Upgrade Power BI Desktop to 64-bit version
    • Upgrade Power BI Desktop to February 2025 version
  • Copilot and AI
    • Copilot in the Power BI mobile apps: now available on iPads and Android tablets (Preview)
    • Updated section – ‘How Copilot arrived at this’
    • Explore from Copilot visual answers
  • Reporting
    • Conditional formatting support for visual calculations (Preview)
    • Publish to Web Support for the Azure Maps visual (Coming soon)
  • Modeling
    • Live edit of semantic models in Direct Lake mode with Power BI Desktop – updates (Preview)
  • Data connectivity
    • Performance improvement in Snowflake connector (Preview)
    • Use the official ODBC driver to connect to Vertica database (Preview)
  • Other
    • The OneLake catalog is now available in Microsoft Teams
    • Monitoring Hub enhancement for Semantic models