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 moreWe 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
» Read moreAs we rolled out the preview of Shared Datasets and the new Build permission, we received feedback that our limitations on export of summarized data from a visual are overly restrictive. We are adjusting our approach based on your feedback. Specifically, we will allow users with the Read permission to export summarized data from a visual.
» Read moreToday, I am thrilled to announce the release of custom branding for the Power BI service. Now you can change the look and feel of the Power BI service to match your corporate theme with just a few clicks!
» Read moreOur 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.
» Read morePower BI Mobile team partnered with Azure Active Directory team to integrate Power BI mobile applications with Azure Active Directory (AAD) Application Proxy to connect to Report Server from their mobile app, without the need to setup complex on-premise configuration.
» Read moreFive new Power BI Premium Capacity settings are available in the portal , preloaded with default values. Admin can review and override the defaults with their preference to better protect their capacity from running into issues and avoid problems before they arise.
» Read moreIt’s time again to recap the major features and announcements we made in the Power BI service and mobile for the month of July.
» Read moreWith the public preview available for “Multi-Protocol Access” on Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, now AAS can use the Blob API to access files in ADLSg2. Check how to do it!
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