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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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‘OraOLEDB.Oracle’ provider is not registered

Support
January 8, 2015 by Adam Saxton

We had a case that came in where the customer was trying to configure a Data Source within the Power BI Admin Center for an Oracle Server. During the creation of that Data Source, they went to set the credentials, and received the following error. Failed…

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Power BI APIs Real-Time Example

Developers
December 23, 2014 by Josh Caplan

See a demo of using the Power BI REST APIs to push web telemetry to a dataset and see a dashboard update in real-time.

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Power BI Designer Preview

Support
December 19, 2014 by Adam Saxton

NOTE: This is preview material and is subject to change. Information listed here is good as of 12/19/2014. The Power BI Designer is a new companion application for Power BI. It is a standalone Windows Desktop application that can be downloaded from the…

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Failed to register the gateway key

Support
December 19, 2014 by Adam Saxton

We have seen a few cases some in where we get an error like the following Failed to register the gateway key. Before trying to register the gateway key again, confirm that the Data Management Gateway is in a connected state and the Data management Gateway…

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New Power BI features available for preview

Announcements
December 18, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Today we are previewing new features for Power BI, our self-service business intelligence solution designed for everyone. Power BI reduces the barriers to deploying a business intelligence environment to share and collaborate on data and analytics from…

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Data Sources via Power BI

Support
December 18, 2014 by Adam Saxton

NOTE: Information in this post is valid as of 12/18/2014 and is subject to change in the future. Data Sources within Power BI are used to define an on-premise data source within the Admin Center. Data Sources rely on a defined Gateway . You can have multiple…

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Data Management Gateway Introduction

Support
December 17, 2014 by Adam Saxton

NOTE: Information in this post is valid as of 12/17/2014 and is subject to change in the future. The Data Management Gateway is needed to connect your on premise servers with Power BI in the cloud. If you want to refresh your data in the cloud with data…

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Announcing New Excel 2013 BI Stability and Usability Improvements

Announcements
December 16, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Recently we have announced a new public update to Excel 2013 that includes major stability and usability improvements in Self Service BI scenarios, especially when Power Query, Power Pivot & Power View are involved. For this release we eliminated…

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Embed Power View Interactive Reports in Your Blogs and Websites

Announcements
December 11, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Ever since we launched Power BI for Office 365 this past February, we have been sharing Power View interactive reports in this blog. We’ve often been asked how to do this, and today we are happy to announce that this feature plus the option of embedding…

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Excel 2013 Power BI fundamentals training

Announcements
December 10, 2014 by Miguel Martinez

With Excel 2013 you have a powerful new way to build interactive reports and analyze your data using the tool you already know and love. Now Excel provides rich data connections, transformation and visual analytics in an unified, seamless experience….

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