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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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Promote your reports, dashboards, and apps on Power BI Home

Today, I’m excited to announce that we’re introducing Featured content on Power BI Home. Now, administrators or designated promoters will have a dedicated section on Home to promote reports, dashboards, and apps and set the default recommended content for their end users.

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Announcing Power BI APIs .NET SDK v3

We’re excited to announce the release of Power BI APIs .NET SDK v3. The new version is easier to use, have additional capabilities including the new credentials classes and easier way to encrypt credentials.

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Join Us! Webinar on DAX

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February 24, 2020 by Kelly Kaye

Learn the differences and advantages of measures and numeric calculated columns.

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Use Dataset owner’s security context(UPN) for Refresh-based Reports (Public Preview)

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February 24, 2020 by Arthi Ramasubramanian Iyer

Use Datset owner’s UPN for Refresh-based Reports

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Announcing: New Power BI tab for Microsoft Teams

We’re excited to announce the new Power BI tab for Microsoft Teams with support for reports in the new workspace experiences, Power BI apps, and paginated reports. Add the tab to your channels and chats so it’s easy to find and track the data you and your teams need to achieve your objectives. your job done.

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Incremental refresh is generally available … and supported in Pro!

We are pleased to announce that, in addition to incremental refresh reaching general availability, it is also now available with Power BI Pro licensing.

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Power BI Desktop February 2020 Feature Summary

We are super excited for our update this month! We are releasing two of our top community requests: incremental refresh for Pro and hierarchical slicer. Additionally, we’ve added some improvements to the new ribbon and a couple new DAX functions. Since our last release, there have been several new custom visuals released on AppSource, so be sure to try them out! If you want to learn about all the updates and enhancements this month, check out the full blog.

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Announcing enhanced connectivity for Snowflake

We are excited to announce the public preview of the enhanced Power BI Snowflake connector. If you are a Snowflake customer, you’ll be delighted to know that you no longer need an on-premises data gateway to access your data warehouse. Another improvement is the support for AAD authentication including Single-Sign-On (SSO).

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Meet the 2020 Season 1 Power BI Super Users!

Power BI
February 14, 2020 by Sandy Rivas

It’s the start of a new Super User season. In addition to welcoming new Super Users, we’re also starting a brand-new tier system.

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Heads up: E-Mail Subscription support for external e-mail addresses is coming soon

In the coming weeks, we will be allowing customers with workspaces or apps backed by premium capacity to add users outside of the organization to e-mail subscriptions as well. This new functionality can be used whether or not you wish to add the user formally to your tenant as a B2B user, giving you the ultimate control around how you wish to share and distribute content externally.

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