Now that Fabric Data Agents (what used to be called AI Skills) can use Power BI semantic models as a data source I’ve been spending some time playing around with them, and while I was doing that I realised something – maybe something obvious, but I think still worth writing about. It’s that there are … Continue reading Fabric Data Agents: […]

In this blog post find overview of the latest updates and future plans for org apps (preview) in Power BI. Highlighting new customization options, Git support, and deployment pipelines that enhance the development and deployment of org apps. Additionally, this post outlines upcoming features such as support for Pro workspaces, paginated reports, […]

We are excited to introduce one-click experiences that make it easier than ever to start using Fabric notebooks and semantic link to analyze your semantic models on the web! With pre-configured notebooks, you can effortlessly run Best practice analyzer and Memory analyzer to improve design, performance, and memory optimization of your semantic […]

Transform data storytelling with data point annotations added to Power BI visuals in PowerPoint. The new Annotations feature enables you to communicate insights with greater efficacy and enhance the engagement and informativeness of your presentation. By adding data point annotations to visuals in your slides, you can provide contextual […]

This month, we’re thrilled to bring you a host of new features and improvements designed to enhance your data analysis and visualization experience. We’ve made significant strides in performance and usability, ensuring that Power BI continues to be a powerful tool for your data needs.

Although it was announced in this blog post on the Microsoft 365 Insider blog recently, you might have missed the news that Excel Copilot can now generate Power Query queries. There are limitations for now: it can only be used to connect to other Excel files stored in OneDrive or SharePoint and it can’t do … Continue reading Using Excel […]

Starting from the next Power BI Mobile app update, the apps will no longer be able to connect to Report Server using the OAuth protocol through AD FS configured on Windows Server 2016. Using AD FS 2019 or newer will continue to be supported by the apps.

With the exciting release of Microsoft Fabric and the Fabric capacity products, we announced last May we are consolidating purchase options and retiring the Microsoft Power BI Premium per capacity products.

As a BI leader or a Power BI expert you know how hard it is to collect user feedback from your BI audience. It is even harder to measure the ROI of your reports and make informed decisions on future investments. Today I can share that this challenge can be solved with March update of The post Embedded surveys in Power BI appeared first on […]

If you’re working with slow data sources in Power BI/Fabric dataflows then you’re probably aware that validation (for Gen1 dataflows) or publishing (for Gen2 dataflows) them can sometimes take a long time. If you’re working with very slow data sources then you may run into the 10 minute timeout on validation/publishing that is documented […]

Here is Gil’s recorded session in Power BI & Fabric Summit 2025 Here is the summary of the presentation: At the recent Power BI Summit 2025, Gil Raviv, founder of DataChant Consulting and BI Pixie, highlighted critical insights and practical solutions for measuring the true value of Power BI dashboards. As BI professionals, we often The […]

After years of meaning to learn how to use Excel Solver, this week I’ve finally made a start: I want to use it to work out the optimal way of distributing workspaces across capacities in a Fabric tenant from the point of view of CU usage. I’m a long way from knowing how to do … Continue reading Using Excel Solver With Power Pivot →

It is the final week of the Power BI DataViz World Championships. You have until

Following on from my recent post about refreshing semantic models with Fabric Data Pipelines and the semantic model refresh activity, a few people asked me how to refresh hidden tables because they are not displayed in the Pipeline configuration UI. I got the answer from my colleague Alex Powers (aka reddit celebrity u/itsnotaboutthecell) who […]

The competition consists of 4 qualifying rounds over the course of 4 weeks, culminating in a live finale that takes place at the Fabric Community Conference in Las Vegas on March 31st! Each week, you’ll have an opportunity to submit your best Power BI visualization for the designated dataset. Winners of each round: One winner will be selected […]

I’m a big fan of Phil Seamark’s “visualise your refresh” pbix file, which allows you to analyse the different operations of an Import mode semantic model refresh operation (similar functionality has now been built into Semantic Link Labs now too). In particular I like how it allows you to visualise operations inside a refresh as … […]

Here is the February 2025 release of the on-premises data gateway

I’m sure you already know how to configure scheduled refresh for your semantic models in Power BI. While the options you have for controlling when refresh takes place are generally good enough – you can configure daily or weekly refreshes and set up to eight times a day for refreshes to take place – there … Continue reading Monthly Power […]

Welcome to the February 2025 update! Welcome to our latest blog post, where we are thrilled to introduce some game-changing features for Power BI that will significantly enhance your data analysis experience. First up is the improved modeling performance for live editing of semantic models in Direct Lake mode within Power BI Desktop. This […]

There’s a new M function rolling out now that allows you to read metadata from Delta tables (at the time of writing it’s available in Dataflows Gen2 and will be available soon in Desktop). It builds on the DeltaLake.Table M function that allows you to read data from Delta tables and is similar to the … Continue reading Reading Delta Metadata […]

A few weeks ago I replied to a question on reddit where someone was experiencing extremely slow performance when importing data from a CSV file using Power Query. The original poster worked out the cause of the problem and the solution themselves: they saw that removing all date columns from their query made their Power … Continue reading […]

Consider this use-case: You built a sales dashboard for hundreds of sellers in your organization. The dashboard provides them current statuses and KPIs and links to hundreds useful resources by product including sales collateral and demos. Would it be great if you could analyze the popularity of your products and sales collateral by the amount […]

The recent announcement of Surge Protection gives Fabric/Power BI capacity admins a way to restrict the impact of background operations on a capacity, preventing them from causing throttling. However, at the time of writing, Surge Protection does not prevent users that are running expensive DAX or MDX queries – which are interactive operations […]

This month (December 2024 release), we expanded BI Pixie capabilities to aggregate engagement data at the Capacity and Workspace levels. BI Pixie can now read meta-information from your Microsoft Fabric or Power BI service and allow you to analyze the effectiveness of your reports by capacities and workspaces. In this post, I will walk you The […]

Have you ever wondered how users engage with your Power BI reports? Where do they click? What do they ignore? Heatmaps are one of the most powerful tools to uncover these insights, giving you a visual story of user behavior. They don’t just tell you what’s working—they spotlight what’s not, helping you make data-driven improvements The […]