This month’s update marks a notable evolution for Power BI. With richer connections to Microsoft 365, smarter Copilot features, and the integration of reporting through PBIRS and SQL Server 2025, users are set to benefit from more seamless workflows and intelligent insights. Whether you’re eager for enhanced collaboration or advanced AI, this month’s innovations are designed to open new possibilities for every Power BI enthusiast.
Read moreThe ‘new look’ of the Power BI service is evolving again based on your feedback during public preview…
» Read moreLast week we presented at the annual Gartner BI Bake-Off session which was moved to a virtual setting this year. We are very excited to share our bake-off demos and key findings with everyone.
» Read moreWe’re pleased to announce two new actions are available for the Power BI connector in Power Automate. Now, you may easily leverage the Power BI export API for either Power BI reports or paginated reports in your workflows in Power Automate.
» Read moreThis month’s Power BI Dev Camp topic is “Writing PowerShell Scripts for Power BI”. Learn to write PowerShell scripts to automate common administrative tasks in a Power BI environment such as uploading PBIX files, patching datasource credentials and refreshing datasets. In this camp session, we’ll go beyond the basics and explore advanced techniques such as calling Invoke-PowerBIRestMethod, parsing together REST URLs and converting PowerShell objects into JSON to populate the body of an HTTP request
» Read moreDynamics and Power Platform services’ geographical availability.
» Read moreWe have several exciting updates rolling out this month for paginated reports! The updates include new authentication type support for Azure SQL DB and Azure Synapse, Common Data Service data source support, improved multi-value parameters support for DAX and more!
» Read moreMarco Russo will demonstrate how the updates in Power BI Desktop allow you to create calculation groups for reports published in Power BI Pro, by using the Tabular Editor external tool.
» Read moreStarting with SQL Server 2019 Cumulative Update (CU) 5, DAX-based clients such as Power BI can use SuperDAX functions and query patterns against multidimensional models to boost query performance.
» Read morePart 2 – We live in a changed world. As you stay safe at home, it’s time to power up your Power BI skills and join a walkthrough with Gil Raviv to build your own Power BI report that analyzes COVID-19 global spread.
» Read moreIn October 2018, we committed to you three releases of Power BI Report Server each year, to be shipped in January, May, and September. We did this to provide transparency around the release timing and allow customers to plan their upgrade cycles accordingly.
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