Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 November 2023
Microsoft Graph is the (strange and misleading) name for the gateway provided by Microsoft to get at all of the things stored in your 365 cloud (emails, files, users, groups, teams and much more). This tutorial explains what Graph is in more detail, and shows how you can call Graph from within Power Automate flows.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 22 November 2023
How to export a flow from one account and import it into another in Power Automate
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 22 November 2023
After every training course I have to manually delete every flow from every delegate's computer. This takes ages, and stresses me out. There must be a better way ... mustn't there? Maybe I should write a flow to delete all my flows?
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 22 November 2023
The new flow designer in Power Automate is now turned on by default, which isn't necessarily a good thing, as this blog explains.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 22 November 2023
Power Automate now includes Copilot, Microsoft's AI tool to help you generate flows and actions. But is this a good thing?
Posted by
Rick Gould
on 01 December 2023
Microsoft have introduced a new button slicer visual in the November 2023 Power BI Desktop update, which adds additional functionality and formatting features to the old tile slicer.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 November 2023
On a recent course I was asked what happens when a Power Automate flow times out. After a bit of research, the obvious answer is to avoid this happening by changing the flow's time-out setting and then handling this in another action.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 25 October 2023
The way in which you interact with Power BI when creating and opening reports is about to change, as this blog explains.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 25 October 2023
It's in preview at the moment, but it's worth knowing that a new model explorer is coming to Power BI proper soon. This is a good thing, but the calculation groups which will also now be available are not for the faint-hearted!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 25 October 2023
This month sees a new feature allowing you to save reports to/open reports from OneDrive and SharePoint, but (again!) it's the new features waiting in preview which will be of most interest to most report-builders.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 02 October 2023
You have to tweak Power BI a bit, but you can now generate quick measures using Microsoft's AI Copilot tool (which will be coming to all 365 applications over the coming months). In this blog we see if it works, and if your job is in danger ...
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 29 September 2023
A look at some of the features coming soon to Power Query (as always with Power Query, you should pay attention to the online version, which seems to get all changes first), such as a conditional split transform and easier selection of SharePoint sites.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 25 September 2023
The biggest change in this month's update is that you can now edit mobile reports interactively, but it's the new DAX brackets colours we're most excited about!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 26 August 2023
A holiday season update with only two small changes: new icons to switch between mobile and normal layout, and a new scaling option for bubble charts (surely on-object formatting will go live soon?).
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 25 July 2023
The July update contains smoothed and leader lines for charts, which are very welcome, but on-object interaction remains elusively stuck in preview ...
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 26 June 2023
The June Power BI Desktop update includes an impressive new card visual, but on-object interaction (the new formatting feature which will change your working life) is still in preview, for now.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 26 June 2023
Microsoft have introduced an impressive new card visual in the June 2023 Power BI Desktop update, which blows the old (rather feeble) card visual out of the water!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 09 June 2023
The big event this month is the (long-awaited) release of Azure Maps, but the May 2023 update also includes the official launch of the Optimize ribbon and allows you to use measures as data labels, among other changes.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 27 April 2023
Modern visual tooltips are still officially in preview, but since they're turned on by default we've included them in this update. The update also includes composite models, some new DAX functions and a small change to PowerPoint story styling, but it's the big beasts lined up in preview which are (as always) the real story.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 March 2023
This month's update is impressive - including visual subtitles, a button action to clear and apply slicers and a new PowerPoint story-telling feature - but it's the on-object interaction in preview which will truly change your life.
