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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Read moreJanuary was a feature-filled month for the Power BI team! We kicked off this new year by announcing some of the highly requested features by our community and couldn’t have wished for a better start. We hope you’re just as excited for what’s to come for the rest of 2019! To recap, here’s a list of all the features we shipped last month.
» Read moreThe February update for Power BI Desktop has a preview of our new Key Influencers visual, which lets you perform key drivers analysis over your data with just a few clicks. We also have some major updates for Q&A with the addition of auto-generated questions and the ability to ask Insights related questions. Our partners and community have added a lot of new connectors and custom visuals this month as well. Lastly, to round things out, we have some formatting and visual improvements this month.
» Read more(Please note: Date change due to inclement weather in Redmond) Take a look at the new version of Power BI Premium Capacity Metrics app. In addition to comprehensive refresh , query and eviction metrics for past 7 days, the latest version now offers system metrics by workloads, and total active dataset size in memory metrics. …
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» Read moreAs the volume and complexity of the data continue to grow exponentially, organizations need an analytics solution that is fast, secure, and easy-to-use, so they can extract critical insights from their data and take timely actions to maintain a competitive advantage. Power BI and Azure provide customers an unmatched combination for petabyte-scale analytics – we …
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» Read moreWe’re thrilled to announce that you can authenticate to Power BI with service principal (also known as app-only authentication), available by end of week in Public Preview. Service principal is a local representation of your AAD application for use in a specific tenant and will allow you to access resources or perform operations using Power …
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» Read moreBulk operations enable Power BI admins to perform repetitive tasks efficiently. Perhaps you need to add a new hire as a workspace administrator to all workspaces of the Finance department. Or maybe you need to restore multiple deleted workspaces or recover a few orphaned ones. It is also imaginable that you needed to enforce a …
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» Read moreFor the second week in a row, we’re continuing to build on the capabilities we’d promised to deliver in the October blog post around managed distribution of content. These two new features are both rolling out now across the globe, and you should see them available in your tenant by Feb 10th. Export to PDF The first …
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» Read moreWe’ve released a new version of Power BI Premium Capacity Metrics app, version 1.10.1.1, with new system metrics by workloads, and total active dataset size in memory metrics. CPU consumption by workload In the Power BI Premium Capacity metrics app, on the Resource consumption tab, you’ll see a new CPU Consumption chart. In addition to the overall capacity …
» Read moreJoin Power BI Program Manager, Charles Sterling, and Power BI MVP, Yana Berkovich, they walk you through how to use personal bookmarks in the Power BI Service and general best practices around using bookmarks in Power BI. If you are not familiar with personal bookmark, as a report consumer, you will now be able to …
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» Read moreBack in October, we announced that several new capabilities would be coming to Power BI for e-mail subscriptions. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that one of the most requested subscription features is now available – the ability to set a time-based subscription schedule for your reports and dashboards in Power BI. This new capability is available for all Power BI reports and dashboards, both in Pro and Premium subscriptions. …
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