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 …
Continue reading “Power BI March 2026 Feature Summary”
Read moreThere have been a few support calls asking why the Drill Down feature is missing from report visualizations. This feature was moved to the explore menu from within a report, in both the reading and editing view.
» Read moreToday we’re happy to announce the public preview of solution templates for Power BI. This project is launching with two templates: a sales management solution template for Dynamics CRM and a sales management solution template for Salesforce.
» Read moreWe have heard your feedback and we are pleased to announce that you can now upload files to Power BI up to 1 GB in size. We also have several more improvements to our RLS and Analyze in Excel previews and a brand new feature: Favorite Dashboards.
» Read moreThe trick to getting, the DAX function, Username() to return the user’s User Principal Name (UPN) in Power BI, is that you have to configure Row-Level Security (RLS) on the dataset within the Power…
» Read moreWe often say that Excel and Power BI are “better together”, but what does that really mean? Learn how adding Power BI’s world-class tools to your Excel analysis routine can save time, make your data easier to manage, and improve the quality of insights in our next webinar, Introduction to Power BI for the Excel user, on May 17, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. PT.
» Read moreWe are pleased to announce improvements to the Power BI Q&A user experience and the start of the public preview for Power BI Q&A for enterprise gateway connected data sources – starting with support for SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services tabular models.
» Read moreTwo of the new features in the Power BI Desktop April Update are Query Parameters and Power BI Template files. In this blog post, we will take a deeper look at the new capabilities and scenarios that these two features enable in Power BI.
» Read moreToday we are excited to announce a major improvement to Excel reports in Power BI: Uploading a complete Excel workbook from everywhere, including local files on your PC or on other storage service.
» Read moreIn this week’s Tech Tip Thursday, our own Guy in a Cube talks about what “Row-Level Security” means for analysts, and how it can be applied to both DirectQuery and cloud models in Power BI. He demonstrates how to create roles for datasets, add new filters, and assign users these roles using the new Security settings in the Power BI service.
» Read moreCan a Power BI report be a work of art? It is if it was created by Power BI Community member Miguel Myers. Miguel, is a Data Scientist as well as a Graphic Designer, and in a webinar last week he shared some of his tips for creating reports and dashboards that are as beautiful as they are informative. Watch the webinar in its entirety on-demand, or read on for a few highlights!
» Read more