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Power BI April 2026 Feature Summary

April 22, 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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Join Us! Power BI Dev Camp: Thursday 30 Sept 2021 at 11:00 AM PDT

Power BI
September 27, 2021 by Kelly Kaye

Scott Sewel of the Microsoft Power BI CAT team will demonstrate the value that Power BI brings to the Power Platform with this month’s topic: Developing Power BI for Dataverse + Power Apps and Dynamics 365 CE. A great opportunity to see how all of these amazing products work together.

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A New Admin API to determine who has access to what (Public Preview)

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Announcements
API
Developers
Features
September 21, 2021 by Rick Xu

A new Admin API to determine user permissions

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Power BI September 2021 Feature Summary

Features
Power BI
September 21, 2021 by Jeroen ter Heerdt

Welcome to the September 2021 update! It’s fall already and we have some fascinating new features to offer!

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On-premises data gateway September 2021 update is now available

Announcements
September 21, 2021 by Arthi Ramasubramanian Iyer

On-premises data gateway release for September 2021

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Announcing public preview of Insights

Announcements
Features
Power BI
September 20, 2021 by Ancy Philip

The Insights feature helps users easily explore and find insights such as anomalies, trends in their data as they interact and consume their reports.

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Power BI Embedded Analytics Playground Updates

We’re excited to share that the Power BI embedded analytics playground just got some new updates, including the ability to embed a report using your own embed token in the developer sandbox!

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Pre-Announcing Automatic Installation of the Power BI app for Microsoft Teams

We’re pre-announcing a new capability to help organizations automatically install the Power BI app for Microsoft Teams for active users of the Power BI service. A new Power BI admin tenant setting is starting to roll-out allowing Power BI admins to control automatic installation. Automatic installation will start occurring in November 2021 for organizations with the setting enabled.

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Export Power BI report to file API – Preview Update

I’m happy to update that during September we are modifying the preview release, specifically lifting the 50 exports per hour per capacity limit. More details inside.

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Fortune 500 Pharmaceutical Company Leverages Power BI and ValQ for Strategic Planning

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September 1, 2021 by Lauren Faber

A fortune 500 pharmaceutical company is using Power BI to revolutionize strategic planning. The company worked with Microsoft partner, Visual BI, to implement their ValQ capability. Read this customer story to learn more about the company’s solution.

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Power BI and Excel: Expanded Feature Availability for Power BI Free License Users (Coming Soon)

Expanded availability of Power BI and Excel features to Power BI Free license users

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