Power BI Updates

If you haven't already, check out FabCon and SQLCon 2026 in Barcelona: Building the data foundation for Microsoft Copilot and Agents for a complete look at all of our FabCon Europe announcements across Fabric and Microsoft Databases. Advancing an open, interoperable semantic foundation for AI-powered analytics Today, Microsoft is pleased to affirm our commitment to […]

Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse now integrates with Fabric User Data Functions in preview, so you can extend T-SQL with custom Python logic without building separate applications or pipelines. Use the integration to send email or Teams messages, retrieve parameters and secrets from Fabric variable libraries or Azure Key Vault, and access data across OneLake. These […]

Last month, we shared a packed September update alongside the European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference. Even so, the Power BI team has continued delivering new capabilities, and we didn't want to wait another month to share them. This update includes enhancements across Copilot and AI, reporting, and semantic models, helping users create richer […]

As the Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, data, and analytics community gathers in Barcelona for the European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference, this month is packed with news. From new Copilot and AI experiences to reporting, modeling, data connectivity, developer enhancements, and mobile updates, we're sharing the latest innovations designed to help you build, analyze, […]

This release is part of the broader ODBC-to-ADBC transition for Power Query connectors described in the Transition from ODBC to ADBC drivers in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric documentation. What’s new Existing connections in your semantic models, dataflows, and paginated reports continue to work unchanged — the migration path is currently opt-in per connection, per […]

If you haven't already, check out FabCon and SQLCon 2026 in Barcelona: Building the data foundation for Microsoft Copilot and Agents for a complete look at all of our FabCon Europe announcements across Fabric and Microsoft Databases. More than a decade ago, I watched Power BI change the way users work, analyze and take action on […]

The semantic model settings pane is becoming the default way to configure semantic models in the Power BI service. The pane opens alongside your workspace, so you can review and change settings without leaving the current page. It provides the same settings as the full semantic model settings page while keeping the surrounding context visible. […]

In December, we announced the retirement of Power BI Q&A, our legacy natural-language querying experience, with retirement planned for December 2026. To give current Q&A user's additional time to assess their dependencies and transition to newer Copilot-powered solutions, we’re extending the retirement date to February 2027. This post recaps the affected experiences and provides updates […]

Many enterprise Power BI semantic models use Azure Databricks as a data source. When building these models, developers and architects face an early and consequential decision: which storage mode to use. Cost, security, and ease of development and tuning all factor in — but report performance is probably the most important of them, because reports […]

Microsoft has refreshed its Power BI sample reports with modern visual defaults, stronger semantic models, mobile-optimized layouts, and newer authoring features to help creators build clearer, more effective reports.