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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 Licensing Revisited!

Support
August 19, 2015 by Adam Saxton

NOTE: This information good as of 8/19/2015 and is subject to change! Questions around Licensing continues to be a top question I get asked about. Whether it is about licensing directly, or about some feature issue and it boils down to licensing. With…

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Five Key Trends in Business Intelligence

Announcements
August 18, 2015 by The Power BI Team

The latest release of Power BI gives us a great opportunity to look at how some smart folks in the industry view the latest trends in business intelligence. Here are five ones you should know: BI for everyone BI used to be the sole province of data…

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Monitor your Azure Mobile Engagement data in Power BI

Announcements
August 17, 2015 by Theresa Palmer

Azure Mobile Engagement is an app analytics service that allows developers to track their application’s performance helping them increase retention and app usage. Using the Power BI Azure Mobile Engagement content pack you can quickly connect to…

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PowerBI-visuals is open for contributions

Developers
August 14, 2015 by Lukasz Pawlowski

Do you want to ship your innovation and code as part of a new Microsoft product? Then read on! A few weeks ago , we open sourced the visuals we ship in Power BI placing them on GitHub. The repo, Microsoft/PowerBI-visuals , gives you everything you…

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How to create a Service Request to contact Power BI Support

Support
August 13, 2015 by Adam Saxton

NOTE: This information is good as of 5/16/2016 and is subject to change! If you are a Power BI Pro user, this entitles you to assisted support. In order to get that support, you have to go through your IT Admin who can then submit a Service Request via…

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What is this thing called Big Data?

Announcements
August 13, 2015 by The Power BI Team

The Three V’s. People who know Big Data will talk about volume, velocity and variety – it’s a useful way to characterize both the benefits and challenges of Big Data. Let’s get you familiar with these terms, and how you can harness…

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Explore and Analyze your Mandrill data in Power BI

Announcements
August 12, 2015 by Theresa Palmer

Update 8/17 : The Mandrill content pack has been restored in Power BI, we apologize for any inconvenience. We are always interested in your feedback, please contact us at http://support.powerbi.com. Mandrill is an email infrastructure service developed…

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The Conceptual Data Model and Limits

Support
August 11, 2015 by Adam Saxton

Note: This information is good as of 8/11/2015 and is subject to change! I had discussed part of this topic as it related to Excel Workbooks with the old Power BI service, but I wanted to refresh that and talk about the concept of the Data Model and highlight…

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Becoming a Power Power BI User in 7 Quick Steps

Announcements
August 11, 2015 by The Power BI Team

You need the latest data for that important business presentation – due in a couple of days. But accessing and transforming data is not at the top of your skillset, especially when the data resides in several locations, in the cloud and on-premises…

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Upload a local PBIX file using the import API

Developers
August 10, 2015 by Josh Caplan

We are currently previewing a new REST API that will allow a developer to programmatically upload a Power BI designer file (PBIX) to a user’s workspace. This new API is called the Import API and it is currently available in our beta version of the…

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