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.

This is the blog on how to deliver Power BI and paginated report subscriptions to OneDrive and SharePoint.

Power BI April 2024 Feature Summary

Welcome to the April 2024 update.

There is more to explore, please continue to read on.

Earlier this year, we announced Copilot preview for all customers with Premium/Fabric capacity in Power BI web. We’re thrilled to share that the same Copilot experience for report creation is now available for preview in Power BI Desktop.

PowerPoint lets you play a presentation continuously. This is handy when you want to show information on public screens without anyone having to control it. In this update, we added a new configuration to Storytelling add-in that ensures that you get t...

Boost your productivity in DAX query view with Copilot to write and explain DAX queries.

Connect to100+ data sources and create paginated reports.

We are excited to announce that Mirroring, previously announced at Ignite in November 2023, is now available to customers in Public Preview. You can now seamlessly bring your databases into OneLake in Microsoft Fabric, enabling seamless zero-ETL, near ...

Power BI March 2024 Feature Summary

Welcome to the March 2024 update! Here are a few, select highlights of the many updates we have for Power BI. There are new updates for Visual calculations, edit your data model in the Power BI Service, and delive...

Welcome to the March 2024 release of the on-premises data gateway! Read more to learn about our support for service principals.

This month, we are excited to announce some new and exciting updates to Copilot;

Copilot for consumers now includes support for Apps. Updates to Copilot geography support, usage and billing updates and abuse monitoring changes.

With the exciting release of Microsoft Fabric and the Fabric capacity SKUs last year, we are consolidating purchase options and retiring the Power BI Premium per capacity SKU after January 1, 2025.

Changing Power BI add-in as snapshot made easy and with more options. You can now change your live data to an image, that only people who can see the report will be able to see.

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