Welcome to the Power BI March 2026 Feature Summary—and welcome to FabCon! As FabCon gets underway, this month’s update reflects the momentum we’re seeing across Power BI and the conversations happening with customers right now. March brings a thoughtful set of improvements across Copilot, reporting, modeling, and data connectivity—focused on making everyday authoring smoother, visuals …
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Read moreThis blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI Developers community. Don’t forget to check out the October blog post, if you haven’t done so already.Power BI Embedded Better check out what we…
» Read moreWe are excited to announce that we have just released the November update for the On-premises data gateway.
» Read morePower BI was first introduced with a simple commitment: Empower people and organizations with access to critical intelligence. The recent general availability of Power BI Premium in June broadened…
» Read moreToday, I’m happy to announce that Esri is taking ArcGIS Maps for Power BI to the next level by introducing Plus, a subscription service available for purchase from Esri that allows everyday business users in Power BI to do more with their spatial data. What is Plus? In a word: More. More basemaps, more data points, more demographics, more reference layers. It’s a step in our journey to make GIS easy to understand and consume for regular business users. Plus is inspired by many of the feature requests you have made since we introduce ArcGIS Maps for Power BI.
» Read moreThis month conditional formatting gets a major update with the ability to control the color based on rules. If you have a slow data source, we now have report options that help limit the number of queries that are sent to the source. Finally, we are also adding several formatting features, including cell alignment for table and matrix, and precise control over the order of overlapping charts on your report.
» Read moreWe’re glad to announce that it is now possible to use Single Sign-On, leveraging Kerberos, when connecting to certain data sources using DirectQuery mode from Power BI.
» Read moreToday, we’re pleased to announce the release of a new version of Power BI Report Server. This release contains all of the features we first introduced in the August 2017 Preview, and several new features customers have been anxiously waiting for, including support for scheduled data refresh, Direct Query, and a new REST API for developers.
» Read moreThe Future of StoryTelling Summit presented the perfect opportunity to showcase Power BI’s storytelling prowess. Of course, our team also learned some valuable lessons related to data-driven storytelling, and we’re excited to share these insights to strengthen your storytelling skills.
» Read moreWe love hearing feedback from the Power BI community and today we have another quarterly survey to keep improving Power BI Desktop with your feedback. This helps us to understand what we’re doing well, and what we can change to make your experience even better.
» Read moreAre you excited for the SQL PASS Summit 2017? We certainly are! The Power BI team is gearing up for another jam-packed conference at the Seattle Convention Center next week and we look forward to…
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