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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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7 New Updates to the Power BI Designer Preview

Announcements
March 26, 2015 by Miguel Llopis

Try what’s coming next for Power BI! We’re very glad to announce a new update for the Power BI Designer Preview . This month’s update includes new features and improvements across all major areas in the product: connectors, transformations…

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Better Insights into your Zendesk customer support with Power BI

Announcements
March 24, 2015 by The Power BI Team

An important part of good customer service is ensuring that your customer needs are being met quickly and efficiently. This means not only hearing from your customers, but analyzing how your customers and your team are interacting. This is where Power…

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Rui Quintino on Developing for Power BI

Developers
March 24, 2015 by Lukasz Pawlowski

We see a lot of people who are doing amazing things with the new Power BI APIs. In today’s post, we have with us Rui Quintino. Rui leads the Business Intelligence and Analytics team at DevScope. Rui and his team have been hands on with the Power BI APIs…

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Automatic Retention Policy for Real-Time data in Power BI

Developers
March 23, 2015 by Josh Caplan

When we introduced the first round of the Power BI REST APIs, we made it really easy for all different types of applications and devices to land data in Power BI. We have seen developer’s connect all kinds of IoT devices to Power BI in order to…

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MySkills4Afrika and Power BI

Announcements
March 19, 2015 by The Power BI Team

by Anand Mariappan, Senior Software Engineer for Power BI I am a Senior Software Engineer in the Power BI team working on the dashboard experience. Recently, I had the opportunity to volunteer in Uganda between Jan 19th to Feb 3rd through the MySkills4Afrika…

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Monitor and analyze your Marketo data with Power BI

Announcements
March 19, 2015 by The Power BI Team

With Power BI our customers can keep a pulse on their business by bringing all their data together and monitoring it through a single pane of glass. Live Power BI dashboards and reports show visualizations and KPIs from data that reside both on-premises…

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An Invitation from Thomas LaRock to Attend the PASS Business Analytics Conference 2015

Announcements
March 18, 2015 by The Power BI Team

This is a guest blog post from Thomas LaRock, the President of PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) It’s no secret that the role of data in the IT industry, in business, and in the world at large is changing at a rapid pace. As technology…

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Announcing the Power API ASP.NET web sample

Developers
March 18, 2015 by Lukasz Pawlowski

Based on Richard diZerega amazing work showing how to integrate push Yammer data into a Power BI dashboard , we now have an ASP.NET web app sample published on GitHub. The sample shows you how to: Register a Power BI ASP.NET web app in Azure AD…

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Data Source isn’t registered in Power BI

Support
March 18, 2015 by Adam Saxton

I’ve seen a few cases where customers are getting the following error when trying to setup a Scheduled Data Refresh within Power BI, and not sure what to do. OnPremise error: Sorry, the data source for this data connection isn’t registered for Power BI…

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[Webinar] Getting Started with the Power BI Designer

Announcements
March 18, 2015 by Miguel Martinez

The Power BI Designer is a powerful tool to create content for Power BI. Join Lance Delano, Program Manager for a live webinar where you’ll learn how to use our new Power BI Designer. He will show you how to use the Power BI Designer to discover…

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