This document provides an update from Yana Berkovich about new features in Power BI Desktop and online, upcoming webinars and events, and resources for learning Power BI. Key points include new single select slicer functionality, heat map support in Bing maps, app authentication webinar, refresh of Power BI datasets with PowerShell, and upcoming SQL Saturday events.

1. Yana Berkovich Data Platform MVP
@yana_Berkovich
YanaBerkovich.com
What’s new and Exciting?
March 2019

2. About Me
BI Analyst& DEV, Data Platform MVP
Consultant, Product Manager
Member of BI, BA, SharePoint, O365, PM communities
Data Platform Consultant
Reportingstream Lead – PHSA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yanaberkovich
http://yanaberkovich.com
@Yana_Berkovich

3. Desktop -
• Single Select Slicer + CTRL to select more
• Bing is on the Map! – heat map support for Bing
• Adjusting map points to smaller sizes
• Cross-highlight by axis labels - for small categories
• Default tooltip formatting – part of the Theme using json
• Static web URL support for buttons, shapes, and & images – not only in
report bookmarks! – new tab
• Filter pane has eraser!
• Canvas alignment

4. Online & Governance
• The ERD looks better than ever – generally available new look
• 1 step forward for sharing your report as a pdf –
• Last month – export to pdf
• This month – multiple pages table support
• Multi Geo - general availability – can change the existing premium
capacities location, can comply to local data rules (EU),
performance for cloud data sets will improve.
• B2B can be the Boss! Now B2B users (external that you are adding
through Azure AD and trust, having a pro license, can edit reports
depend on your set up) – Great Power great responsibility! – some
minor changes to your organizational Governance policy

5. Apps and Embedded
Last month, we shared our gaps with embedded apps configurations…
• Live Webinar tomorrow – Ted Pattison Microsoft MVP – will show how to
use app authentication only at 10 am.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhMfpdXLIw0

6. Webinars/Blogs etc..
• Chris Web – using CDM and creating a
data flow
• Book – The absolute guide for
dashboarding and reporting Kasper
• For the devops – refresh PowerBI data sets
with PowerShell – Brett Powell
• Summary of syncs and slices by Praty
• Marco Russo – our celebrity for today! –
Calculations groups in Dax
PowerBI Blog
Guy in a cube
Free Training Avi Singh
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-
us/developers/
All source code for visuals in GitHub
PowerBI Where
Should I start?
This month favorites

7. Very Exciting
Gartner report
for Microsoft…
Why we all chose the right user group!

8. Events
• Victoria SQL Saturday
https://www.sqlsaturday.com/826/eve
nthome.aspx
• Redmond SQL Saturday back from
the snowmagedon! April 27th
https://www.sqlsaturday.com/807/eve
nthome.aspx
• The PowerPlatform world tour
https://www.powerplatformworldtour.c
om/home
Business Application summit