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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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Upcoming Power BI Windows App Changes

Support
July 9, 2015 by Adam Saxton

We currently have two different Power BI Apps within the Windows Store. I wanted to point out the difference between them and to indicate what will be happening. Microsoft Power BI Preview This Microsoft Power BI Preview app is for the new experience…

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Updated Power BI web application sample is now available

Developers
July 9, 2015 by Lukasz Pawlowski

We’re pretty stoked to have a new version of our web application sample out on GitHub. We took the original sample and paired it down significantly to focus on those elements that are critical to understanding how to call the Power BI REST API from a…

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Refresh for on-premises sources is here!

Announcements
July 7, 2015 by The Power BI Team

Update : Power BI Personal Gateway is now GA. You can download the latest version of the Gateway clicking the download icon on the Power BI service. If you have a preview version installed, uninstall it and then re-install the GA version. One of…

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Domain Placement w/ Office 365

Support
July 7, 2015 by Adam Saxton

NOTE: This information good as of 7/7/2015 and is subject to change You can have multiple domains tied to your Office 365 Tenant. Also, you may have a domain that you own that isn’t a part of your tenant. When you sign up for something that makes uses…

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Monitor and Visualize your UserVoice Data with Power BI

Announcements
July 1, 2015 by The Power BI Team

UserVoice is a software-as-a-service product management and customer support platform that allows organizations to easily gather product feedback and deliver a great customer support experience to their users with a simple personalized interface. It provides…

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Oops error when refreshing a dataset

Support
July 1, 2015 by Adam Saxton

Within Power BI, you have the option of either setting up a Scheduled Data Refresh, or doing a Refresh Now. Refresh Now is considered on demand. When performing a refresh, you may encounter one of the following errors. Both of these messages do indicate…

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Understanding the Shadow Tenant in Office 365

Support
June 30, 2015 by Adam Saxton

NOTE: Information good as of 6/30/2015 and is subject to change. Do you know what lurks in the shadows??? I hear from a lot of different people that the new Power BI doesn’t use Office 365. That is a little misleading. For some users, you may use Power…

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Exploring Azure SQL Data Warehouse with Power BI

Announcements
June 24, 2015 by The Power BI Team

Azure SQL Data Warehouse offers elastic scale and massive parallel processing. With the limited public preview announced today, Power BI allows you to directly connect to the data stored in your Azure SQL Data Warehouse offering simple and dynamic exploration…

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How to create a Trial Tenant in Office 365

Support
June 24, 2015 by Adam Saxton

NOTE: Information good as of 6/24/2015 and is subject to change. I still get questions on how to do this. Especially with the existing Power BI service not having a “Create Trial” option readily available. Trial tenants can be good for kicking the tires…

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The new Get Data experience

Announcements
June 23, 2015 by The Power BI Team

Over the last four months we’ve been adding support for new SaaS services in Power BI, on a weekly basis, providing users with rich, out of the box dashboards and reports in just a few clicks! As we continue this release cadence we wanted to make…

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