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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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The Power BI for iOS app is now globally available

Announcements
March 18, 2015 by Miguel Martinez

On Monday, Microsoft announced the release of the Power BI Preview in more than 140 countries . This, of course, includes the Power BI for iOS app, for both iPad and iPhone devices . The app offers an easy and native experience designed especially…

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Richard diZerega – Developing for Power BI

Developers
March 16, 2015 by Lukasz Pawlowski

We see a lot of people who are doing amazing things with the new Power BI APIs. Today we’re starting a new recurring feature on the Power BI Developer blog where we’ll interview the people behind these solutions. These are people who are hands on with…

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Power BI Preview now available worldwide

Announcements
March 16, 2015 by The Power BI Team

by James Phillips, Corporate Vice President, Data Experiences This morning at Microsoft’s Convergence Conference , we announced new products and services that will enable organizations to create a data culture in all parts of their organizations…

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Developing for Power BI Overview (Video)

Developers
March 13, 2015 by Lukasz Pawlowski

A few weeks ago our very own Josh Caplan did a video on Channel 9 showing how you can use the Power BI APIs to push data into the Power BI service. You can see how easy it is to create real time dashboards using the APIs. Josh shows how quickly you can…

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Create a Scalable Data Model for Enhanced BI

Announcements
March 12, 2015 by The Power BI Team

Managing millions of rows of data from multiple data sources requires a great deal of planning. Making this information readily accessible to BI users is just one (extremely important) goal. The information itself has to be worth obtaining—so you…

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Power View Silverlight Reports in Chrome showing unable to load image

Support
March 12, 2015 by Adam Saxton

**** UPDATE – 3/13/15 **** This appeared to be affecting all items outside of Internet Explorer. Not just Chrome. This has been resolved, but may take a little time to hit the region that you are in. On my end it is working correctly at this point in…

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Power BI Analysis Services Connector Deep Dive

Announcements
March 11, 2015 by The Power BI Team

Update : Power BI Analysis Services Connector is now GA. You can download the latest version of the Connector clicking the download icon on the Power BI service. If you already installed a preview version, you can upgrade to the latest version without…

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Do we really need AAD DirSync?

Support
March 10, 2015 by Adam Saxton

There has been some confusion regarding what is actually needed to use the Analysis Services Connector for Power BI. Originally there was a requirement that Azure Active Directory DirSync was required to get this to work. However, this was altered to…

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[Webinar] Analysis Services Connector in the Microsoft Power BI Preview

Announcements
March 10, 2015 by Miguel Martinez

Do you want to keep your data on-premises and still use a dynamic web-based dashboard? Want to use this data in live, interactive dashboards and reports? Learn how to use the Analysis Services Connector, in as little time as it takes you to eat lunch…

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Can I add a domain to my Tenant?

Support
March 9, 2015 by Adam Saxton

I got a question regarding the ability to add a Domain to an existing O365 Tenant. From the customers perspective, they wanted to have users in their tenant that were from a different domain than their primary one. In the context of Power BI, you can…

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