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Power BI September 2025 Feature Summary

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 experience, and important changes to default visuals like the Bing Maps Visual icon. Dive into the details to discover how …

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What’s new for SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services RC1

We are excited to announce RC1 of SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services (SSAS 2019). The SSAS 2019 release is now feature complete! We may still make performance improvements for the RTM release. RC1 introduces the following features: Custom ordering of calculation items in calculation groups Query interleaving with short query bias for high concurrency workloads Online attach for optimized synchronization of read-only replicas SuperDAXMD for improved performance of Power BI reports over SSAS multidimensional Governance setting to control Power BI cache refreshes

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Power BI Desktop August 2019 Feature Summary

Our August release has another hotly anticipated feature from the Microsoft Business Application Summit, grouping. Grouping in reports, similar to PowerPoint’s grouping, lets you easily organize groups of visuals to move and resize them as a set. This month’s release also has some updates to our newest features, such as a  icon set picker for our newly added icons conditional formatting and measure support for key influencers.  

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