Power BI March 2024 Updates Released by Microsoft

by | Mar 27, 2024

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Announcing the Public Preview of Database Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric

We are excited to announce that Mirroring, previously announced at Ignite in November 2023, is now available to customers in Public Preview. You can now seamlessly bring your databases into OneLake in Microsoft Fabric, enabling seamless zero-ETL, near real-time insights on your data – and unlocking warehousing, BI, AI, and more.

 

Power BI March 2024 Feature Summary

Welcome to the March 2024 update! Here are a few, select highlights of the many updates we have for Power BI. There are new updates for Visual calculations, edit your data model in the Power BI Service, and deliver report subscriptions to OneDrive SharePoint. There is more to explore, please continue to read on.

 

On-premises data gateway March 2024 release

Welcome to the March 2024 release of the on-premises data gateway! Read more to learn about our support for service principals.

 

Copilot Updates March 2024

This month, we are excited to announce some new and exciting updates to Copilot; Copilot for consumers now includes support for Apps. Updates to Copilot geography support, usage and billing updates and abuse monitoring changes.

 

Important update coming to Power BI Premium licensing

With the exciting release of Microsoft Fabric and the Fabric capacity SKUs last year, we are consolidating purchase options and retiring the Power BI Premium per capacity SKU after January 1, 2025.

 

Improved image mode in Power BI add-in for PowerPoint.

Changing Power BI add-in as snapshot made easy and with more options. You can now change your live data to an image, that only people who can see the report will be able to see.

 

On-premises data gateway February 2024 release

We are excited to announce the February release of the on-premises data gateway!

 

Announcing the creation of connected tables in Excel Online

You can now create tables in Excel online using data from Power BI semantic models.

 

Announcing the New Data Connectors for Excel and CSV for Report Creation in Fabric

The new Excel and CSV connectors in Fabric allows you to connect to your favorite files and create Power BI reports in a few clicks.

 

For more information, view the blog here: March 2024 | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI

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