Last week was the Ignite conference, which brought with it a swathe of announcements in the Azure space, but only a handful in the Power BI space. Those announcements are summarized in the Microsoft Ignite 2022: Do more with enterprise self-service business intelligence, with explicit content shared about the

• Cross-tenant Power BI Dataset Sharing (which was actually announced in last month's feature summary)
• Office 365 meet Power BI Desktop (GuyInACube)

Though there are a few more features mentioned in the main blog that it's worth digging into.

One announcement that for some reason didn't make it into that blog is the new Power Query SDK for Visual Studio Code – Public Preview, a great new addition for those creating/maintaining custom connectors. Other announcements have been made apparent to me thanks to a couple of blogs by Matt Allington, who references the New DAX Functions in Excel Data Models and Power Pivot and the fact that there are seemingly No More Auto Aggregations in Dimension Tables - both of which are very welcome improvements!

I mentioned it last week, but I'll mention it again - I'll be running a free, in-person Modern Data DevOps (Data Mesh + Lake House) with Azure Synapse Analytics Workshop in London (UK) on Nov 2nd with my colleague Ian Griffiths. Do sign-up if you'd like to attend!