What's new and exciting in Power BI recap December 2021 and my favorites that were added in 2021

1. What’s New and
Exciting with Power BI?
Baku Power BI and Excel User Group
January 2022

2. Yana Berkovich
• PMatMicrosoft
• FormerDataPlatformMVP
• Lovesharingmyinsights
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/yanaberkovich
• YABERKOV@MICROSOFT.COM
• @Yana_Berkovich
Https://aka.ms/PBITraining
Https://aka.ms/DIAD
https://aka.ms/powerplatformilt

3. New Data Gateway!
Don’t forget this is again the time of the year to renew your data
gateway
Ensure that the reports that you publish to the Power BI Service and refresh
via the Gateway will go through the same query execution logic/run-time as
in the December Power BI Desktop version
(Gateways are also important for Power Automate Desktop!)

4. Large Models in Power BI
on-demand loading capabilities for large models in Power BI
• Monitor with Dynamic Management Views
• On-demand loading surfaces additional information that can be used to understand the
state of your models. To access this information, use a Dynamic Management
View (DMV) in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).
• By default, it’s automatically enabled for all Power BI Premium datasets that have Large
dataset mode enabled
• To continue the Power BI as a superset of Azure Analysis Services

5. Public Preview of Hybrid Tables in Power BI
Premium
incremental refresh augmented with
real-time data
Fast changes to the data refresh
from your Data Warehouse
Better resource utilization especially
for large datasets
Incremental refresh policy – real time
support
For Premium users – get the
latest data with Direct Query as well
when enabled
After enabling direct query partition
make sure you perform a data refresh!
Enables faster performance for hybrid
tables in your premium

6. Visualize data from Power Apps &
Dynamics 365 apps
Visualize the view of your data set from
Power Apps & from Dynamics
Automatically

7. How to get started?
Enabling through preview features
Full set up instructions can be found if
configuring app properties
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/powerapps/maker/model-driven-
apps/create-model-driven-
app#configure-app-properties

8. How can I control the data?
• Permissions are inherited and still
applied
• You can choose which tables are
displayed
• Edit the Power BI report
• Pin visuals to desktop

9. Data Analyst Associate
Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst
Associate.
Exam DA-100

10. GOALS
• Requires Premium
Capacity
• Creating new workspace
might be necessary
• Sensitivity labels –
enables information
security and privacy
• Can set and update
Goals from Power
Automate
• Goals Samples

12. Become more productive –
Analyze your and your organizatio
activity in Teams
• There is a whole new bar with new
action items just for Power BI in Teams
including:
• Goals
• Applications
• Deployment pipeline
• Workplaces
• Learn – access Learning Center
And so much more!

14. Teams Activity

15. • End-to-end flow of all
the required Power
BI REST APIs
• Available in .NET
Core, Java, & Python
• https://github.com/mic
rosoft/PowerBI-
Developer-Samples
• Video tutorial
Embedded Analytics (You can add it to your web application)
New Deployment image for Dev’s

16. Power BI Windows App
For Business users
Run Power BI
applications

17. Instructor Led Training
https://aka.ms/pbitraining
https://aka.ms/powerplatformILT
https://aka.ms/DIAD
https://aka.ms/nextDIAD
https://aka.ms/AIAD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QndlMQn91uw
Power Platform Instructor led Training