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Power BI January 2026 Feature Summary

20 January, 2026 by Katie Murray

The January 2026 Power BI Feature Summary is packed with exciting news—there are fresh updates, important announcements, and some big changes, especially around upcoming events, feature retirements, and the latest in AI and Copilot advancements. Some of the standout features include new reporting tools, smarter data modeling options, enhanced resources for developers, broader global standards …

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Power BI February 2024 Feature Summary

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20 February, 2024 by Saveen Reddy

Welcome to the Power BI February 2024 update. We’ve got a lot of great features this month. Here are some key highlights: Visual calculations make it easier than ever to do calculations that were very hard or even impossible. The Power BI home provides a centralized location for all your Power BI desktop activities. Fabric Copilot for Power BI can now add measure descriptions to your semantic model measures. The Power BI add in now supports shareable links to make it easier for people to consume reports. The new Explore feature gives you a better understanding of what’s in the data you’re exploring.

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Announcing general availability of granular access control for all data connection types

We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of granular access control for all data connection types, a security feature that enables organizations to have more control over who can bind semantic models to organizational data sources on-prem and in the cloud.

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Generate measure descriptions with Copilot (preview)

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19 February, 2024 by Zoe Douglas

We are excited to announce the public preview of generating measure descriptions with Fabric Copilot!

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Improvements for creating new Direct Lake semantic models

As part of our continued tooling improvements, we have enhanced the experience for creating Direct Lake semantic models in Microsoft Fabric. This applies to semantic models created by clicking the New semantic model button from the Lakehouse.

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VNet Data Gateway for Fabric and Power BI is now Generally Available

We are excited to announce that the VNet Data Gateway is now GA! Read the blog to find out more and get started using the VNet Data Gateway to secure your production workloads.

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Accelerating Embedded Analytics for Your Application

Announcing the availability of the partner solution accelerators for embedded analytics

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Updated Microsoft Fabric compliance offerings

Microsoft Fabric, our all-in-one analytics solution for enterprises, has achieved new compliance certificates

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Power BI Report Server January 2024 Feature Summary

New capabilities for Power BI Report Server in the January 2024 release.

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Dynamic subscriptions for Power BI reports (Preview)

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16 January, 2024 by Michael Bruhjell

We’re excited to announce that dynamic per recipient subscriptions are now available in Preview for Power BI reports! Similar to dynamic subscriptions for paginated reports, you can now distribute a personalized copy of a Power BI report to each recipient of an email subscription.

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Save your seat at the ultimate Fabric learning event!

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16 January, 2024 by Arun Ulagaratchagan

Join us for the inaugural Microsoft Fabric Community Conference on March 26-28, 2024, at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas. With 150+ sessions and workshops on March 24, 25, and 29, it’s the ultimate learning event for Microsoft Fabric!

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