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Power BI 2024 Holiday recap

Season’s greetings, Power BI Community! As we wrap up an incredible year, the Microsoft Power BI team is taking a break for December. All planned updates will roll out in January including the next Power BI Desktop release. As we approach another year of innovation, let us take a moment to reflect on some key highlights from 2024.

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Power BI bolsters Azure AS compatibility with EffectiveUserName support

We are announcing support for user impersonation using the EffectiveUserName connection-string property. This is truly exciting because it opens the door for mass migrations of tabular Analysis Services solutions that rely on EffectiveUserName-based impersonation to Power BI. It also opens new options for administrative tools and scripts to connect to datasets on Power BI Premium using different user identities! Impersonating another user can be as easy as specifying that user’s UPN on the connection string.

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Power BI November 2021 Feature Summary

Welcome to the November 2021 update. The team has been hard at work delivering mighty features before the year ends and we are thrilled to release new format pane preview feature, page and bookmark navigators, new text box formatting options, pie, and donut chart rotation. There is more to explore, please continue to read on.

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Plan your Power BI sessions at Ignite Nov 2-4, 2021!

As we move into the last third of the year, the Power BI team have had a busy summer working on delivering exciting innovation for you, our community. We have a number of sessions during Ignite delivered by experts which gives you a great sense of the capabilities you can try, deploy or scale for your organization. As with everything we do, we’re grounded on the mission of empowering every individual, team and organization make better data driven decisions. Let’s take a look what sessions you can put into your backpack this Ignite.

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