No show today! We should be back next week! Have a great weekend everyone!

Due to Ignite next week, we decided to take a week in preparation for all that great news! See you later gators!

Power BI: The MQ Leader https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-named-a-leader-in-2021-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-analytics-and-bi-platforms/ Power BI Embedded Gen 2 Preview https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-power-bi-embedded-generation-2-preview/ All the Premium Gen 2 goodness brought to Azure SKUs. .NET Core Support for Analysis Services Client Libraries https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/net-core-support-for-analysis-services-client-libraries-is-ga/

Best Practices Analyzer for Power BI Models https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/best-practice-rules-to-improve-your-models-performance/ Power BI Report Server January 2021 https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-report-server-january-2021-feature-summary/ ESRI ArcGIS support and more. Paginated Reports Update January 2021 https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/paginated-report-january-2021-feature-summary/

Geospatial Power Apps Features GA https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-general-availability-of-geospatial-features-in-power-apps/ Address input with autocomplete Interactive maps Help with your Flow https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/discover-learn-and-create-flows-using-in-product-help/ Interactive help and improved documentation for Power Automate. Power Automate Desktop January Update

Doug and I were going to pre-record on Thursday night and realized… not much happened this week! See you next week! Be safe everyone! If you haven’t already, check out last week’s show! Also, because we had to…

Frontline Productivity in Teams https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/8-new-productivity-hacks-for-frontline-workers-managers-and-it/ba-p/2050283 Approvals in Teams GA https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/approvals-in-microsoft-teams-now-generally-available/ba-p/2053985 Import Custom Power Automate Connectors from GitHub https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/import-a-connector-from-github-as-a-custom-connector/

Power BI Datasets Hub Preview https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-datasets-hub-preview/ Further elevation of datasets as a first class citizen. Quick create of Power BI reports in the service https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/quickly-create-reports-power-bi-service/ Got data on your clipboard? Let’s go! Power BI XMLA Endpoint GA https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-general-availability-of-read-write-xmla-endpoints-in-power-bi-premium/

Authenticator as mobile password vault when used with Edge Now, autofill your saved passwords from Microsoft Edge on your phone! — Microsoft Tech Community Pretty cool — might let me kill 3PS for this Power BI Composite Models Update https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/directquery-for-power-bi-datasets-and-azure-analysis-services-preview/ In preview. Maybe the biggest self-service BI feature shipped in Power BI… ever?