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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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Monitoring and Exploring your Visual Studio Online Work Items with Power BI

Announcements
July 22, 2015 by Theresa Palmer

We’re excited to announce that this week’s update to Power BI now offers work item tracking in the Visual Studio Online content pack. This update includes a new dashboard, report and an updated data set offering insights on your work items…

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Limit of 10 Reports per Dataset/Data Model

Support
July 22, 2015 by Adam Saxton

NOTE: This information is good as of 7/22/2015 and is subject to change. *** Update *** I had posted earlier that this was specific to Free users, but it has nothing to do with Free or Pro. Reposted to reflect the accurate behavior. *** UPDATE – 9/2/2015…

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Bulk Assign Licenses in Office 365

Support
July 21, 2015 by Adam Saxton

NOTE: Information good as of 7/21/2015 and is subject to change! With the upcoming Power BI General Availability , you may be in a situation, with your Tenants, to assign a license to a bunch of licenses to your users. This may be for the Free or Pro…

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Power BI – GA and beyond…

Announcements
July 21, 2015 by The Power BI Team

Earlier this month, James Philips Corporate Vice President of Power BI announced Power BI 2.0 General Availability on July 24. With only two days to go, now is a great time to provide more detail on some of the changes you will see on July 24 and what…

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Power BI Weekly Service Update

Announcements
July 21, 2015 by The Power BI Team

With Power BI’s imminent GA release we’re excited to announce a number of new capabilities to the service. Team collaboration Power BI groups offer a powerful collaborative experience built on Office 365 groups . Groups in Power BI bring…

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New capabilities added to Power BI

Announcements
July 15, 2015 by The Power BI Team

This week we’re excited to announce a number of features available in Power BI as we get closer to general availability on July 24 th : Office 365 navigation and application launcher integration . With a single click, you can now navigate…

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Visualize big data with Power BI and Spark on Azure HDInsight

Announcements
July 14, 2015 by Theresa Palmer

Azure HDInsight now offers a fully managed Spark service. This capability allows for scenarios such as iterative machine learning and interactive data analysis. Power BI allows you to directly connect to the data in Spark on HDInsight offering simple…

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Analyze and Explore your Acumatica Cloud ERP data with Power BI

Announcements
July 13, 2015 by Theresa Palmer

Acumatica Cloud ERP delivers a suite of fully integrated business management applications such as Financials, Distribution, CRM and Project Accounting, powered by a robust and flexible platform. With the Power BI Acumatica content pack , you can quickly…

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The Power BI app for Android is now available

Announcements
July 13, 2015 by The Power BI Team

Last week we announced the release of the Power BI for Android app available on the Google Play Store . Power BI for Android offers an easy and native experience designed especially for Android phones, enabling you to explore live dashboards…

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Announcing Power BI general availability coming July 24th

Announcements
July 10, 2015 by The Power BI Team

Today we announced that Power BI will be generally available July 24 th . Through the course of the preview we have added many exciting new features and capabilities, a full list is here at the bottom of this blog post. In July we will make the updates…

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