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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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Pull Data from SQL Server with Power BI Designer

Support
29 March, 2015 by The Power BI Team

Power BI Designer is a tool that can help you create interactive reports. You can pull data from various data sources like SQL Server, OData Feeds, etc. Let’s look at how we can use Power BI Designer to pull data from SQL Server and add those data elements…

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7 New Updates to the Power BI Designer Preview

Announcements
26 March, 2015 by Miguel Llopis

Try what’s coming next for Power BI! We’re very glad to announce a new update for the Power BI Designer Preview . This month’s update includes new features and improvements across all major areas in the product: connectors, transformations…

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Better Insights into your Zendesk customer support with Power BI

Announcements
24 March, 2015 by The Power BI Team

An important part of good customer service is ensuring that your customer needs are being met quickly and efficiently. This means not only hearing from your customers, but analyzing how your customers and your team are interacting. This is where Power…

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Rui Quintino on Developing for Power BI

Developers
24 March, 2015 by Lukasz Pawlowski

We see a lot of people who are doing amazing things with the new Power BI APIs. In today’s post, we have with us Rui Quintino. Rui leads the Business Intelligence and Analytics team at DevScope. Rui and his team have been hands on with the Power BI APIs…

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Automatic Retention Policy for Real-Time data in Power BI

Developers
23 March, 2015 by Josh Caplan

When we introduced the first round of the Power BI REST APIs, we made it really easy for all different types of applications and devices to land data in Power BI. We have seen developer’s connect all kinds of IoT devices to Power BI in order to…

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MySkills4Afrika and Power BI

Announcements
19 March, 2015 by The Power BI Team

by Anand Mariappan, Senior Software Engineer for Power BI I am a Senior Software Engineer in the Power BI team working on the dashboard experience. Recently, I had the opportunity to volunteer in Uganda between Jan 19th to Feb 3rd through the MySkills4Afrika…

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Monitor and analyze your Marketo data with Power BI

Announcements
19 March, 2015 by The Power BI Team

With Power BI our customers can keep a pulse on their business by bringing all their data together and monitoring it through a single pane of glass. Live Power BI dashboards and reports show visualizations and KPIs from data that reside both on-premises…

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An Invitation from Thomas LaRock to Attend the PASS Business Analytics Conference 2015

Announcements
18 March, 2015 by The Power BI Team

This is a guest blog post from Thomas LaRock, the President of PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) It’s no secret that the role of data in the IT industry, in business, and in the world at large is changing at a rapid pace. As technology…

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Announcing the Power API ASP.NET web sample

Developers
18 March, 2015 by Lukasz Pawlowski

Based on Richard diZerega amazing work showing how to integrate push Yammer data into a Power BI dashboard , we now have an ASP.NET web app sample published on GitHub. The sample shows you how to: Register a Power BI ASP.NET web app in Azure AD…

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Data Source isn’t registered in Power BI

Support
18 March, 2015 by Adam Saxton

I’ve seen a few cases where customers are getting the following error when trying to setup a Scheduled Data Refresh within Power BI, and not sure what to do. OnPremise error: Sorry, the data source for this data connection isn’t registered for Power BI…

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