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 Having previously covered the main features announced in the keynote, and Power BI release, it's time to turn our attention to preview features. As always with Preview features, the general rule of thumb is to not use them in production enviroments as they carry the risk of breaking changes being made. If you want to use them, then please do a risk based analysis on each feature - for example, the longer the feature has been in preview the lower the risk of a breaking change being made. To start, we'll turn our attention to the keynote. Keynote Platform enhancements OneLake security This is a major change to the security approach that a lot of people have been waiting for. I did cover it in my Keynote blog given how large a change it is, and if you want to know more please do jump over to my keynote blog. Synapse migration assistant The next announcement was a migration assistant to help move the metadata and data from Synapse Warehouses across into a Fabric Warehouse using a ...

 As part of my regular series of thoughts on the new release, this month is going to be slightly different given how many features we've had drop. This blog is going to focus on new features that aren't part of Power BI, not in preview, and didn't make the keynote. If you want to see any of these, have a look here: Keynote Power BI Preview Going forwards, I'm probably going to split out the Power BI updates from the Fabric updates. That way it allows me to go into key features in a bit more detail without ending up with a massive blog. First up, general platform changes - and as always, don't forget to check the blog for more information on any of these features. Fabric platform CI/CD changes Couple of important changes in this space. The main on is the APIs starting to support service principles. A welcome addition that removes the need for service accounts when managing CI/CD via ADO. Whilst the main feature we need of APi support when ADO is the git provider isn...

Yesterday we had an whole host of new features announced in the keynote ( see my first part in this series for more information). Whilst the main announcements focused on Fabric features, we do have a number of announcements to cover specifically around Power BI.  If this proves popular, I'll be moving to seperating out announcements for Power BI and the wider Fabric platform separately. But before we get going on new features, let's address the elephant in the room ... Power BI Price increases As of today, the list price for Power BI has gone up by a significant amount (e.g. Premium per user going from £15.00 to £18.50 per user per month - about a 19% increase). From what I'm seeing this increase is pretty much causing the pushback that partners warned Microsoft would happen. If you are licensing via O365 E5 licensing you are excluded from this price change. The cloud in the silver lining is that whilst it may not seem like Power BI has had many new features in the last ye...

After last nights keynote, we've so many announcements and new features to digest that it's going to take a few blog posts to get through everything. Given that I'm going to split the announcements to cover: Keynote, Power BI, Fabric, Purview, and preview features. Let's get started. For this blog, if you have a specific feature you want to know more about do have a look at Arun's blog.  Unless it's a really major preview announcement, I'm going to focus on features that have gone GA - the reason, without doing a risk/reward evaluation, I personaly take the view that preview features shouldn't be used in production. That means for the majority, the preview features need to be considered in future roadmap plans but are unlikely to be used today. Up first, copilot. Co-pilot The big announcement in this space is that Copilot is now available at all SKU levels! This is a big one for the SME sector that couldn't justify the cost of an F64 SKU. Now you too...