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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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Announcing My workspace governance improvement (Public Preview)

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January 19, 2023 by Rick Xu

Announcing Public Preview of new My workspace governance features that address some of the pain points of governing My workspaces for Power BI Service Admins

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Announcing the Public Preview of Power BI Dataset Scale-Out

Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of Power BI Dataset Scale-Out, a dataset feature enabling enterprise customers to support large-scale Power BI solutions without any additional administrative overhead or infrastructure complexity.

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On-premises data gateway December release

Power BI
January 17, 2023 by Nikki Waghani

Happy Holidays! Here is the December release of the on-premises data gateway.

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Announcing Power BI in Microsoft Teams collaboration experiences improvements

We’re excited to start the year by announcing updates to the Power BI in Microsoft Teams experiences. Today we’re announcing three new capabilities that are starting to roll out, and a hint about things to look forward to in the coming weeks.

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Announcing: Viva Goals + Metrics integration, scorecard time zones and more

Power BI
January 13, 2023 by Carly Newsome

New year, new features! We are excited to announce the general availability of the Viva Goals Power BI integration and three new Metrics features specifically answering common customer asks. A new, optional column for milestones, scorecard time zones, and a handy auto collapse / auto expand feature.

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Thank You Power BI Community!

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January 10, 2023 by Kelly Kaye

Thank you Power BI Community and look back of 2022 feature releases, and when the upcoming release will be available.

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Deep dive into Optimize ribbon and streamline your Power BI authoring

How does the Optimize ribbon, with Pause visuals, Refresh visuals, Optimization presets, and Performance analyzer, as well as Edit relationships in the properties pane work to streamline your authoring experience? Here are some scenarios they can help you with!

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Join us! Power BI Dev Camp: Thursday 15 December 2022! 11:00 AM PST. Learn about Power BI Quick Create SDK

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December 13, 2022 by Kelly Kaye

This session will teach campers how to use the new SDK support to initiate an embedded Quick Create session which allows the user to dynamically build a new dataset and report on the fly.

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Power BI December 2022 Feature Summary

Power BI
December 13, 2022 by Rien Hu

Welcome to the December 2022 update! This month, we’ve added a variety of new DAX functions, updated slicer type formatting, and brought Metrics to the Windows app. There is more to explore, so please read on!

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Simplifying capacity management with unified v-cores

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Metrics
December 8, 2022 by Chris Novak

Power BI Premium Platform updates to unify back-end and front-end v-cores delivers a simplified capacity management experience for capacity administrators.

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