Power BI

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.

Power BI Desktop Bridge (Preview) Power BI Desktop Bridge introduces a new way of working, allowing external applications and agents to interact directly with Power BI Desktop!   What is Power BI Desktop Bridge? The bridge is a lightweight local server that lets external applications interact directly with Power BI Desktop.   Think of it as a direct, secure channel between your tools and Power BI Desktop. Your agents, scripts, and external applications can now: Check the current state of your report. Trigger key actions, like reloading files after edits. Capture screenshots to validate changes. Iterate and improve in real time, without manual handoffs. The following core capabilities are available through the bridge:   Discover What's Available Method: bridge.manifest Capabilities : Returns a complete list of all capabilities and their specifications. Think of this as a "menu" of what your version of Desktop can do. Always check this first to see what's available.  

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.

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.  

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 rules — are evaluated against the actual end user rather than a fixed connection account.

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 nothing new to configure on the report itself. Protection comes from a single, well-defined rule that the workspace enforces automatically as soon as you turn OAP on.

Announcing general availability of org apps in Power BI and Fabric, including one of the most requested capabilities: audiences.

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 service supports direct cloud connections without the need for a data gateway to Oracle data sources such as Oracle Autonomous Database.

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 impacted, and the steps you can take now to prepare.

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 that help reduce repetitive work.