We’re pleased to announce the winners of the latest Microsoft Fabric Community Contests, including the Power BI DataViz World Champs, Fabric Notebooks for Power BI, and the Translytical Task Flows contest.

The Power BI September 2025 Feature Summary introduces updates for users and coincides with FabCon Vienna! This release introduces several key enhancements, including, updates to Copilot and AI capabilities such as the standalone Copilot default-on exp...

Today, we are announcing the retirement of the Power BI integration within SharePoint lists and libraries. This change impacts customers who currently use the “Visualize the List” or “Visualize the Library” feature to create or access reports directly ...

Semantic Model Refresh Templates in Power BI enable users to orchestrate semantic model refreshes using Fabric Data Pipelines. This feature allows you to visualize and sequence refresh activities for common and advanced scenarios.

You can access t...

Do you have an idea for automating decision-making in Microsoft Fabric? Want to help others learn while showcasing your skills?

We’re launching the Translytical Task Flow Contest – a challenge to create and share reusable templates that combin...

The Power BI August 2025 Feature Summary introduces major updates in Copilot and AI, reporting, and modeling. Highlights include Copilot integration for SharePoint Online, measure description automation, and advanced data modeling features.

The Power BI DataViz World Champs – EU Edition kicks off today! Explore the dataset, enter the competition, and compete for a spot on stage at FabCon Vienna. Plus, check out our other August contests in the Fabric Community!

Starting on or after September 1, 2025, the standalone Copilot experience will be enabled by default for all tenants where Copilot has already been turned on. You can opt-out of this automatic rollout. Read on to learn how.

Join the Power BI Notebooks Competition this August to showcase your creativity and contribute to the community gallery.

Deprecation announcement: Power BI will no longer support the creation of new models using Cognitive Services, with full retirement of these capabilities coming by September 15th. In response to customer feedback requesting more control and flexibility...

We want to celebrate this incredible journey by bringing together the global community to celebrate 10 years of Power BI

This month’s update marks a notable evolution for Power BI. With richer connections to Microsoft 365, smarter Copilot features, and the integration of reporting through PBIRS and SQL Server 2025, users are set to benefit from more seamless workflows an...

Power BI is rolling out new Copilot capabilities that make it easier to interact with report data across multiple surfaces, including chat, email, and exports. Users can now ask natural language questions in the “chat with your data” experience and get...

We’re excited to introduce TMDL view for Power BI Desktop. This new feature lets you script, modify, and apply changes using Tabular Model Definition Language (TMDL), providing an alternative experience to semantic modeling using code, instead of a gra...

We are thrilled to announce that we have made updates to the Power BI file picker to create an easier and more intuitive time navigating through existing files and saving new files.

Welcome to the January 2025 update!

Get ready to elevate your data analysis experience! We’re thrilled to announce a series of powerful new features designed to make exploring your data easier and more intuitive than ever. With the addition of the &...

Update for R/Py visuals in PBI

Paginated reports supports Power BI language in the Power BI service

Season’s greetings, Power BI Community! As we wrap up an incredible year, the Microsoft Power BI team is taking a break for December. All planned updates will roll out in January including the next Power BI Desktop release. As we approach another...

Teams activity analytics; Teams Analytics Connector

This is the November 2024 release of the on-premises data gateway.

The Core Visuals Vision Board is the newest resource from the Core Visuals Team for the Power BI community.

We’re excited to tell you more about org apps, now in public preview. Fabric org apps are Power BI workspace apps rebuilt for Fabric as a new item type. With org apps as items, you can create multiple org apps per workspace. And you work with org...

The blog post introduces the Metric Sets Public Preview, a feature designed to enhance metric management across organizations by providing a centralized, consistent, and trusted metric system. Key benefits include centralized metric management, enablin...

Here is the October 2024 release of the gateway!

You can use Power BI Desktop to live edit Direct Lake semantic models, improving your data modeling experience and allowing export to Power BI Project (PBIP) for professional development workflows.

We have a lot of exciting updates to share with you this month.

Quick measure suggestions with Copilot to be replaced with Microsoft Fabric Copilot, we have an update with Azure Map – Data Bound Reference Layers, and a preview of New List Slic...

Today, we are announcing that we will be retiring real-time streaming in Power BI.

We recently made a significant update to the Direct Lake documentation. Direct Lake accelerates time to data-driven decisions by unlocking incredible performance directly against OneLake, without the need to manage costly, time-consuming data refreshes...

Purview data loss prevention policies help you automatically detect sensitive information as it is uploaded into lakehouses in your Fabric tenant and take risk remediation actions.

PBIRS September 2024 updates

Announcing invoke pipeline activity, Fabric Functions activity, and Spark job environment parameters.

We are excited to announce a new feature in Power BI Desktop that allows you to choose from a variety of themes, including the most requested Dark Mode! Whether you’re working late into the night or simply prefer a darker interface, Dark Mode provides ...

New updates to Create Page in Copilot for Power BI enable users to have a clearer and more transparent interaction with copilot to yield more relevant report pages.

Welcome to August! We are excited to announce a new version of the on-premises data gateway.

Welcome to the August 2024 update.

Here are a few, select highlights of the many we have for Power BI.  You can now ask Copilot questions against your semantic model. Updated Save and Upload to OneDrive Flow in Power BI and Narrative visual with Cop...

Power BI’s mission is to empower every individual, team, and organization to make confident decisions with data. With the increased focus on governance, compliance, and policy, customers need greater visibility into workflows and related activities. Te...

This is the new paginated report authoring experience.

We are happy to announce that the Tabular Model Definition Language (TMDL) has now reached General Availability (GA)!

We are excited to announce you can now write DAX queries with DAX query view for web from published semantic models in the workspace.

We are excited to announce the July 2024 release of the on-premises data gateway!

Welcome to the July 2024 update. Here are a few, select highlights of the many we have for Power BI. Customize your reference layers in Azure Maps visual, DAX query view is available in live connect and an update to Power BI enhanced report format (PBI...

The Windows installer for Analysis Services client libraries will be retired next year.

We are thrilled to announce that, for the seventeenth consecutive year, Microsoft has been positioned as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms.

Welcome to June! We are excited to announce the 3000.222.10 version of the on-premises data gateway.

Enhancing team collaboration and automation is crucial for any enterprise BI development, which is the primary goal of Power BI Desktop developer mode. The Power BI enhanced report format (PBIR) for Power BI Project files (PBIP) represents a significan...

Welcome to the June 2024 update. Here are a few, select highlights of the many we have for Power BI. You can now download large semantic models, Power BI enhanced report format (PBIR), and Subfolder support in Power BI Report Builder.  There is much mo...

You can now ask Copilot for data from your semantic model! Check out the announcement to learn more about this exciting new preview feature for Power BI Copilot.

Copilot for Power BI is now generally available! Check out the full announcement to learn more.

This blog provides a summary of the updates in the May 2024 Report server release

We are thrilled to announce that the Power Automate visual in Power BI has now reached General Availability (GA)! This is a significant milestone for Power Automate and Power BI users, as it enables them to streamline their workflow and gain valuable i...

Power BI May 2024 Feature Summary

One of the biggest opportunities we’re seeing is in accelerating the path to a data-rich culture by enhancing the productivity of your data teams and making analytics more accessible to every user. That’s why we’ve invested heavily in bringing to life ...

We are proud to announce the May 2024 version of the on-premises data gateway. Please continue to send us feedback for what new capabilities you’d like to see in the future at ideas.powerbi.com/ideas.

In March we hosted over 4,200 data professionals in Las Vegas for the first-ever Microsoft Fabric Community Conference. When we set out to host this event, we knew there was a hunger in the community, but we had no idea the level of interest, and need,...

The Power BI integration with Azure Log Analytics has been enhanced through the introduction of a new event known as ‘ExecutionMetrics’. This addition will improve customers ability to obtain more details about their semantic model activities.

Last May, we announced the integration between Power BI and OneDrive and SharePoint (ODSP) that allows you to view Power BI reports directly in a OneDrive or SharePoint document library. Previously, this capability was limited only to reports with data...

Following the announcement of the deprecation of creation of Power BI Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) models for Dataflows V1, the feature has now been deprecated in all regions as of the third week of April.

We are excited to announce the April 2024 release of the on-premises data gateway!

We have some exciting announcements to share regarding Copilot in Microsoft Fabric. The information in this blog post has also been shared with Fabric tenant administrators. Below are the highlights of the changes.