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Power BI January 2026 Feature Summary

January 20, 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 Management cmdlets in Azure Cloud Shell

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Features
Support
September 11, 2018 by Kay Unkroth

The Power BI Management cmdlets (see the announcement on this blog less than a month ago) are now available in Azure Cloud Shell. This is great news—especially for those of you who want to get…

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Connect with the Microsoft Power BI AI Team at Microsoft Ignite

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Features
September 11, 2018 by Justyna Lucznik

Are you interested in shaping the future of AI in Power BI? Going to be at Microsoft Ignite in 2 weeks? We invite you to join the Power BI AI team for a brainstorming session about AI in Power BI…

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Announcing Dashboard Comments in Power BI: Your new hub to discuss data and collaborate with others

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Features
September 10, 2018 by Nikhil Gaekwad

At Power BI, we help you tell your story. Our platform of powerful tools empowers our users to analyze and derive insights from their data while creating stunning visuals to share that story.…

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Celebrating our first community contribution to the Power BI management cmdlets

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Developers
September 7, 2018 by Kay Unkroth

With great pleasure and genuine appreciation, we are announcing our first community contribution to the Power BI management cmdlets. Kudos go to Kenichiro Nakamura, who joined the effort in early…

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9/11 Webinar: New Power BI tools and new templates including a walk through of Cool Blue and the layout Purple Haze

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September 5, 2018 by Charles Sterling

The owners of PowerBI.Tips and Power BI MVPs, Seth Bauer and Mike Carlo join me again share with you their ever increasing grab bag of Power Tricks, Tips and Tools they have published to https://PowerBI.Tips over the last 18 months.

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Power BI Developer community August update

This blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI Developers community- Power BI Embedded and Custom Visuals.

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New monitoring capabilities for Power BI Premium Capacities

Power BI is about making informed, data driven decisions and we believe this should include how you maintain your assets in Power BI. Now we are very pleased to announce the launch of the Premium…

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On-premises data gateway August update is now available

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August 24, 2018 by Youssef Shoukry

updating Http URL to Https

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Multi-geo support (preview) for Power BI Embedded in Azure

Multi-national ISVs and organizations building applications and using Power BI Embedded in Azure to embed analytics into their apps, can now deploy their data in multiple regions across the world to comply to different data residency requirements.

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Python Episode 1 – A New hope

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Features
August 20, 2018 by Mohammad Ali

With the release of Python inside Power BI, we, the Power BI team have come together to show you some of our favorite python packages. Python is a great addition to the Power BI family by providing you the ability to perform quick data transformation or plot cool data visualizations. You can even expand your Power BI reports further by bringing in sophisticated machine learning and AI.

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