Combined Power BI and Microsoft Fabric release blog, filtered to the things a bank finance/BI team actually deploys: semantic models, DAX, paginated reports, deployment pipelines, Fabric warehouse, Copilot, and governance.
Visual calculations (Generally Available) in Power BI, making it easier to add DAX calculations directly to the visual where they’re used.
Power BI reports continue to help analysts build secure, governed BI experiences on semantic models, while Fabric Apps expands what developers can create from the same trusted data.
When you configure a Denodo data connection for Entra ID SSO, users querying a semantic model in DirectQuery mode are authenticated to Denodo with their own Microsoft Entra ID identity.
When enabling Microsoft Entra ID single sign-on (SSo) for Starburst (Preview) report viewers querying semantic models in DirectQuery mode authenticate to Starburst with their own Entra ID identity, to Starburst's access policies — including row-level and column-level security rul
DAX user-defined functions are now production-ready based on community feedback and internal validation. Their adoption during preview shows that DAX UDFs are quickly becoming a mainstay of Power BI semantic models.
Author: Kay Unkroth - Principal Program Manager
Author: Kay Unkroth - Principal Program Manager
Getting your data job done just got easier with composite semantic models, mixing Direct Lake tables with import tables, now available in public preview. Direct Lake on OneLake table storage mode already could mix tables from other Fabric data sources, such as lakehouses, warehou
Power BI’s latest update introduces an enhancement to how users interact with reports with the general availability of modern visual tooltips. All Power BI reports—from Power BI Desktop to Power BI reports in the web, in the mobile app, in Teams, and embedded in any website—now u
Workspace Outbound Access Protection (Preview) for key Real-Time Intelligence experiences in Microsoft Fabric, helping organizations reduce data exfiltration risk while keeping common real-time ingestion, analytics, dashboarding, and automation workflows running. Read on to learn
With Item Recovery in Microsoft Fabric (Generally Available), you can now recover deleted items across supported workloads, restore items through the Workspace Recycle bin or REST API, and configure tenant-wide recovery policies.
Lock down cross-workspace event flows in Fabric: new Outbound Access Protection lets you control which workspaces can consume Azure and Fabric events—blocking unauthorized access by default until you explicitly allow the Real-Time Events connector.
The June 2026 release of the on-premises data gateway is version 3000.322. This new version (3000.322) continues our focus on improving gateway manageability, operational visibility, and enterprise governance while maintaining secure and reliable connectivity between on-pre
Workspace outbound access protection (OAP) is a workspace-level control in Microsoft Fabric that lets you constrain where the data inside a workspace can flow. With this preview, OAP support now extends to Power BI reports. The good news for report authors and admins: there's not
As organizations scale their data and AI investments, many are adopting a multi-platform approach so teams can use the tools that best fit each project. But this flexibility comes at a cost: duplicated data, fragmented governance, and complex data movement across systems. Th
Migrating Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipelines to Fabric has traditionally started in the ADF portal—running assessments and then switching to Fabric to complete the process. This approach continues to support scenarios where upfront readiness insights are important.
We’re introducing cross-workspace role assignment in the Secure tab of the OneLake catalog. This new capability builds on the Secure tab’s unified view of workspace roles and OneLake security roles, making it easier for security administrators and data owners to manage access con
Copilot in web modeling (Preview) in the Power BI service, is an AI-powered assistant helping you analyze and improve your semantic models using natural language so you can spend less time on manual edits.
This month’s release brings a wide mix of improvements across the platform—from core data engineering and warehouse capabilities to continued investments in data agents, real-time intelligence, and enterprise-ready governance. You’ll see a strong focus on making complex scenarios
Author: Santhosh Kumar Ravindran, Principal Product Manager - Custom Live Pools for Fabric Data Engineering is a new way to schedule and manage “ready to run” Spark capacity so your teams spend less time waiting for compute and more time de
Author: Kay Unkroth, Principl Program Manager - Outbound Access Protection (OAP) is a workspace-level network security and governance feature that blocks outbound traffic from a workspace by default and lets you allow only the destinations you explicitly trust. With this pr
Aaron Merrill - Principal Product Manager
IntroductionData rarely stays in one place. As organizations standardize Microsoft Fabric and OneLake, the same datasets need to be reused across teams, domains, workspaces, and increasingly across tenant boundaries. The challenge is no longer moving data; it is sharing it secure
Discover the latest Fabric Eventstream connector updates—bringing stronger enterprise security, broader source coverage, and simpler real-time ingestion across private networks, Kafka, Service Bus, IoT Hub, Oracle CDC, and HTTP.Now available: Connector private network suppor
Multi Cloud Data integration and transformation made easy and painless by Fabric Data Factory.
Summer heat meets the world stageThe FIFA World Cup 2026 kicked off this month across 16 host cities in the United States, Mexico, and Canada—where it is currently summer, including in cities like Miami, Dallas, Houston, and Atlanta. These cities aren’t exactly known for mild Jun
OneLake in Microsoft Fabric makes a simple promise: provide a single, unified data foundation for analytics, AI, and BI. ServiceNow Workflow Data Fabric enables customers to access, derive insights and build AI agents using their enterprise data where it lives without needing to
As organizations scale their data and AI investments, they increasingly adopt a multi-platform approach, enabling teams to use the tools that best fit their needs. The challenge has been enabling both platforms to work from a single copy of data without duplicating storage or bui
For most enterprises, the largest and fastest-growing repository of business-critical information is SharePoint and OneDrive. Contracts, financial models, project plans, meeting notes, presentations, and compliance documentation accumulate across every team and department, rich w
The evolution of data transformation in Microsoft Fabric has reached a new milestone with Dataflow Gen2 (CI/CD). Recent benchmarks reveal not just incremental progress, but a leap forward—delivering order-of-magnitude improvements in both cost and performance compared to previous
Microsoft Fabric Data Factory's Build 2026 release reshapes what pipelines can do — moving beyond data movement & process orchestration into the people and processes around your data. New Approval activities bring human decision-making directly into pipeline flows, while cond
If you are already using Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric, you know the value of having your operational data continuously replicated into Fabric as OneLake Delta tables — ready for analytics, AI, and reporting across Fabric workloads. And if you have enabled Delta Change
At Microsoft Build 2026, we're focused on what every developer and data team already knows: the most ambitious AI applications are only as good as the data behind them. Fabric Data Factory is the integration foundation of Microsoft Fabric—built to help builders move data with con
Author: Xu Jiang, Principal PM Manager - Bring more context to your IoT data in Microsoft Fabric Eventstream. With the enhanced Azure IoT Hub connector (Preview), you can now preserve valuable event metadata—such as device identity, ingestion time, and authentication details—alon
Author: Ye Xu, Principal Program Manager - Copy job is the go-to solution in Microsoft Fabric Data Factory for simplified data movement across multiple clouds and tenants. With native support for bulk copy, incremental copy, and change data capture (CDC) repl
Author: Ye Xu, Principal Program Manager - Copy job is the go-to solution in Microsoft Fabric Data Factory for simplified data movement across multiple clouds and tenants. With native support for bulk copy, incremental copy, and change data capture (CDC) repli
Author: Matt Basile - Senior Product Manager
Author: Pradeep Srikakolapu, Senior Product Manager - Connection behavior in Fabric Warehouse is becoming more deterministic—and that has important implications for auditing. Learn what’s changing, why some login events may no longer appear where you expect, and how to preserve f
Author: Pradeep Srikakolapu - Senior Product Manager
Author: Roberto Cervantes Rivero - Senior Product Manager
Author: Matt Basile - Senior Product Manager
Author: Ambika Jagadish, Senior Product Manager
Author: Miquella de Boer - Principal Product Manager Lead
Many organizations running Apache Spark workloads on Azure Synapse Analytics are planning their move to Microsoft Fabric for a more unified analytics experience. This preview introduces an AI-assisted migration skill that helps move Synapse Spark artifacts to Fabric from the comm
Every organization wants to put AI to work on its data. Copilot, agents, and generative AI promise faster insight, but they raise a hard question for security teams: If AI can reach all our data, what stops it from surfacing the wrong data to the wrong person? The
How to use sensitivity labels and Protection Policies to secure your Power BI estate — and why it matters more than ever in the age of AI.
An AI-powered skill that turns Spark troubleshooting from a multi-tab investigation into a single natural-language command.
Discover a new way to build visuals in Real-Time Dashboards. The redesigned tile editing experience in Real-Time Dashboards brings AI-assisted authoring, a larger preview area, and more flexible workflows to help you create and refine dashboard visuals faster.
If you work alongside AI tools, your screen is probably full of markdown files. They’re fast to write, easy for an agent to read, and great for keeping a record. Then you try to share one. That’s where the format breaks. You paste it into a chat and the formatting collapses.
This month, we’re continuing to focus on making every day work a little easier—whether that’s building reports, modeling data, or just getting answers faster. You’ll see progress across Copilot and newer AI-driven experiences, along with a set of practical updates to reporting th
AI powered Power BI reporting skills is a collection of multiple skills that enables AI agents to automate report creation, from designing pages to publishing to Fabric. Now available through the Power BI authoring plugin in Skills for Fabric —a first-party catalo
The rise of AI is fundamentally changing what we demand from a data platform. AI agents and copilots are becoming virtual analysts — issuing queries autonomously, at scale, and at speeds that expose every weakness in a slow or rigid platform. Your mission-critical warehouse must
Graph in Fabric provides relationship‑first data modeling natively into Fabric, so context is explicitly modeled rather than inferred. As AI systems become more capable, their primary limitation is no longer data access but understanding how data is connected;
As data volumes grow, concurrency rises, and analytics workloads become more dynamic and AI-driven, performance becomes harder to predict and harder to scale. Every query sits in the critical path, adding pressure to the warehouse, and every second counts. This is the core tensio
Microsoft Fabric Skills teach GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf how to work with Fabric correctly - the right APIs, auth, and end-to-end recipes. Open source, install in seconds.
Microsoft Build 2026 marks a major shift in how developers build data experiences with AI agents. Today we're announcing two capabilities that bring agentic analytics to the forefront: Agent Skills for Power BI, which let developers prompt an AI agent to build and refine semantic
What started years ago as a wild research bet — “Could we even run SQL on AI compute runtimes?" — has become a serious product motion that we think can change how we support analytical workloads for good. We narrate this journey in our paper, CoddSpeed: Hardware Accelerated Query
Chafia Aouissi - GPM Fabric IQ
An end-to-end look at what's new in Fabric Analytics—where every layer is engineered for an agentic world, and every user benefits.Every data leader asks the same question: where does AI deliver real, measurable business value? It does not come from isolated experiments. Instead,
The way organizations are building apps is changing. AI and coding agents have made it easier than ever to turn an idea into an app. But keeping those applications secure, compliant, and governed has only gotten harder.
Every leadership team is asking the same question: how do we win in the age of AI?The answer is no longer just better models. It is whether your people and AI agents can operate together, in real time, sharing an always-current understanding of the state of the business.
Author: Katie Murray, Senior Program Manager - Power BI continues to evolve with updates that make it easier to explore data, generate insights, and build more polished reports. This month’s release brings improvements across Copilot and AI experiences, reporting and modeling enh
Author: Michal Bar - Principal Program Manager
Welcome to the April Power BI update!Power BI’s April 2026 update is here, bringing continued improvements across Copilot and AI, reporting, visuals, and modeling. This release includes more flexibility when working with layouts and visuals, expanded Copilot experiences—especiall
Reliable analytics starts with reliable connectivity. We understand that when moving your data, data security is of the utmost concern; we are committed to providing the most secure, cutting-edge data connectivity solutions; enabling you to have the confidence that your data is s
Connecting Power BI to Oracle has historically meant extra provider installations and data gateway deployment — even for cloud-hosted databases. Two new Preview capabilities change that. Power BI Desktop now includes a bundled Oracle Managed ODP.NET provider, and the Power BI ser
If you use connectors like Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery in Power BI or Fabric, there’s an important change coming. Microsoft is moving from embedded ODBC drivers to ADBC, which affects how connections are established and managed. This post explains what’s changing, who’s im
The May 2026 release of the on-premises data gateway is (version 3000.318).
Authored by: Sara Lammini Rodriguez - Product Manager II, and Miguel Escobar - Senior Product Manager