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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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Dataset Refresh History Enhancements

Power BI
September 8, 2023 by Rui Romano

We’ve enhanced the dataset Refresh History page to help you diagnose and resolve issues more effectively.

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Announcing calculation groups for Direct Lake datasets

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Power BI
September 6, 2023 by Zoe Douglas

We are excited to share that Direct Lake datasets now support calculation groups!

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Heads up: Power BI OneDrive and SharePoint report viewing will be on by default starting in October

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Power BI
September 6, 2023 by Lauren Faber

Viewing Power BI reports in OneDrive and SharePoint will be turning on by default in October, 2023. Action must be taken by September 29th if you do not want this feature on by default in your tenant.

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Streamlining cloud connection management for datasets, paginated reports, and other artifacts

We are excited to announce the public preview of shareable cloud connections for datasets and paginated reports. Shareable cloud connections are the future for datasets and paginated reports and will soon become the connection type of choice!

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Best Practices to prevent GetGroupsAsAdmin API timeout

Power BI
August 31, 2023 by Marina Fuster

This blog post describes new changes in GetGroupsAsAdmin API to help administrators deal with timeout issues.

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Heads up: Changes to Excel workbook support in Power BI workspaces

We are announcing the deprecation of some features for Excel workbooks in Power BI workspaces. This can impact organizations and users who use these capabilities. This blog outlines the changes, the timelines for deprecation, and how to update your workbooks. It also explains how to determine what workbooks in your organization are impacted.

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On-premises data gateway August 2023 release

Power BI
August 28, 2023 by Nikki Waghani

We are happy to announce that we have just released the August 2023 update for the on-premises data gateway (version 3000.182.4).

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Announcing new ways to create connected tables in Excel connected to Power BI

We’re excited to announce new capabilities that make it easier for users to add Power BI data to their Excel workbooks. We’re adding an Insert Table option directly in Excel. We’re also adding an Export with Live Connection option from the OneLake Data Hub.

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Announcing automatic scaling for dataset scale-out public preview

We’re excited to announce that we’ve reached the final milestone in our dataset scale-out public preview journey! We started the preview without auto-sync and with single read-only replica per dataset. A few months ago, we introduced auto-sync, and now Power BI can create as many read-only replicas as your Power BI capacity supports. Dataset scale-out is no longer limited to a single read-only replica per dataset.

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Power BI August 2023 Feature Summary

Power BI
August 22, 2023 by Ryan Majidimehr

Welcome to the August 2023 update! We’ve got a new layout switcher, update to On-Object Interaction (preview), updates to the ORDERBY function, the Editor’s pick of the quarter for visualizations, and more. Continue reading for more details on our new features!

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