Weekly Roundup for March 8, 2021

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Be sure to check out the March meetup of the Nashville Modern Excel & Power BI User Group at 11:30 AM CST. Matthew Roche, Principal Program Manager of the Power BI CAT at Microsoft, will be speaking on building a data culture with Power BI. You won’t want to miss this one!

 

Microsoft has released a list of learning resources for Power Automate. It includes beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. Definitely a good resource, no matter your sophistication with Power Automate.

 

Microsoft has just released Power Fx, the Excel-like language behind PowerApps, making it open source. It can now be used across the Power Platform and incorporated into more solutions.

 

Microsoft is now giving away Power Automate Desktop for free on Windows 10!

 

Power BI Premium Per User is now generally available and the price is $20/user/month. If you already have a Power BI license—for example, through an Office 365 E5 license—then it is just an additional $10/user/month.

 

Power BI Premium Gen 2 is now previewing an autoscaling feature that allows your Premium node to expand cores as necessary based on compute demand, and you are only billed for the excess cores on a 24-hour basis.

 

Patrick LeBlanc shows you how to quickly change data sources in Power Query. I literally had a client ask me about this just last week.

 

Insight Quest has a collection of PowerShell scripts for common admin tasks. This is great tool for efficiency for anyone working as an admin of a Power BI capacity.