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Power BI April 2026 Feature Summary

22 April, 2026 by Katie Murray

Welcome to the April Power BI update! Power BI’s April 2026 update is here, bringing continued improvements across Copilot and AI, reporting, visuals, and modeling. This release includes more flexibility when working with layouts and visuals, expanded Copilot experiences—especially on mobile—and several preview features that continue to enhance performance and authoring workflows. You’ll also find …

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Using Power BI to visualize and explore Azure SQL Databases

Announcements
13 May, 2015 by The Power BI Team

Azure SQL Database is a relational database-as-a-service that allows users to have a scalable system with data protection and predictable performance. With the latest update to Power BI, you can connect directly to the data stored in your Azure…

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Analyzing country data in less than 60 minutes

Announcements
11 May, 2015 by The Power BI Team

Today Marc Reguera , Finance Director at Microsoft, will show us how to build country specific dashboards with key indicators such as growth, resources, population and economy in less than 60 minutes. To build these visualizations, Marc uses public…

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A fresh new look for the Power BI Preview

Announcements
8 May, 2015 by The Power BI Team

Just three months ago, we first unveiled the Power BI Preview, and since then, we’ve been continually releasing new features and improvements, from content packs for Microsoft Dynamics Marketing and Google Analytics , to support for treemaps on dashboards…

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The Power BI app for Windows is now available

Announcements
7 May, 2015 by The Power BI Team

Today, Microsoft announced the release of the Power BI Preview for Windows app available on the Windows Store . This app offers an easy and native experience designed especially for Windows platforms, enabling you to explore live dashboards and…

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Gain understanding and insights into projects in Visual Studio Online with Power BI

Announcements
7 May, 2015 by The Power BI Team

We have with us today Jeff Levinson a Program Manager in the Visual Studio Online Analytics team. We are very excited by the Visual Studio Online content pack for Power BI his team built. Now you can mashup your VSO data with all the other data you use…

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Monitor your IoT sensors using Power BI

Developers
30 April, 2015 by Lukasz Pawlowski

Today we are very lucky to have with us Spyros Sakellariadis, a Director with the Microsoft Open Tech team. He is doing some amazing work with the ConnectTheDots project. Now he’s integrated Power BI with ConnectTheDots ! Would love to see you give…

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Power BI Preview now available in your language

Announcements
28 April, 2015 by The Power BI Team

Good news! • ¡Buenas Noticias! • Gute Neuigkeiten! • Хорошая новость! • グッドニュース！ With Power BI, we’re on a mission to make business analytics accessible to everyone. In addition to making it easier than ever before to analyze…

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Outputting Real-Time Stream Analytics data to a Power BI Dashboard

Developers
28 April, 2015 by Josh Caplan

If you’ve seen the Power BI real time demos and heard about how Power BI integrates with Azure Stream Analytics (ASA), today we have exciting news: Azure Stream Analytics’ Power BI integration has reached public preview! This enables customers to output…

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Power BI Workbook Size Limitations

Support
26 April, 2015 by Adam Saxton

*********** This post is outdated and has been replaced with the following: The Conceptual Data Model and Limits http://blogs.technet.com/b/powerbisupport/archive/2015/08/11/the-conceptual-data-model-and-limits.aspx *********** When using an Excel workbook…

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Monitor and explore your Microsoft Dynamics Marketing data with Power BI

Announcements
23 April, 2015 by The Power BI Team

Microsoft Dynamics Marketing is an integrated marketing management solution for marketing operation, planning, execution, and analytics across all channels—digital, social, and traditional. It enables marketing teams to plan, execute, and measure…

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