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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Leia maisWe are constantly using feedback from the community to improve Power BI Desktop. This helps us understand how we’re doing and what we can do to make your experience even better. Once a quarter, we run a survey to get insight into your level of satisfaction with Power BI and to get feedback on how to make the Desktop experience even better. This is a great chance to provide direct feedback to the product team and help shape future releases of Power BI Desktop. In addition, you’ll have the chance to win some prizes.
» Leia maisDid you know that the Power BI Community has its own blog? Along with rapidly growing forums, event listings, and feedback systems, the Community blog is a platform for you to share with your peers, industry experts, and us here at Microsoft. Every month, we’ll post highlights from the Community blog so you can catch up on any of the posts that you may have missed previously. Check out these great posts from September:
» Leia maisWith the most recent update to Power BI Mobile, we are excited to announce our preview of phone reports. Much like with our previous feature, phone optimization for dashboards, you can now create report views that are optimized for your phone.
» Leia maisWe have some cool features to announce this month for the Power BI mobile apps, including the preview for phone-optimized reports, new UI functionality, and new navigation capabilities.
» Leia maisThe September Power BI Desktop update is out now and packed with many new features and improvements! We are excited to announce our Esri map integration, DirectQuery support for the Snowflake Connector, new forecasting features, and the ability to create a mobile report layout.
» Leia maisAdam Saxton, a.k.a Guy in a Cube, has been providing support for Microsoft products for over 10 years, and this week he shares some of his tips for troubleshooting! This video focuses on fixing connectivity issues with Power BI Gateway, but also gives general advice for solving data source connection errors from any application.
» Leia maisWe have two great webinars coming up! On October 4, learn how to get started with R Script and Power BI with a detailed step-by-step walkthrough. On October 6, discover how to create mobile applications using PowerApps and SharePoint data.
» Leia maisLearn more about the collaboration between Microsoft Power BI and Narrative Science and how it is driving customer success.
» Leia maisWe’re excited to share at Microsoft Ignite that soon Power BI users can use ArcGIS Maps for Power BI (preview) created by Esri. This preview will bring new capabilities to all Power BI users. The ArcGIS Maps for Power BI visual is provided by Esri. ArcGIS Maps for Power BI visual goes a step beyond. Not only can you plot data points from Power BI, but you can also add reference layers. Layers include a selection of demographic layers provided by Esri and public web maps or those published into Esri’s Living Atlas. You will be able to create a compelling analysis that also provides reference information to get more context from the data you have in Power BI. Hover over a block group in the Median Household Income layer to find out who your customers are in a specific area.
» Leia maisCreating compelling stories that attract readers in a sea of competitive publications and content choices has never been harder. By using the unique capabilities of Microsoft Power BI, Seeking Alpha Financial Analyst Dallas Salazar has risen above the pack to write attention-grabbing articles on financial news. Learn how Dallas uses Power BI and the SandDance visual to improve the speed and clarity of his research.
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