Microsoft Weekly News

  • PowerBI:
    Microsoft Entra ID single sign-on for the Denodo connector in Power BI (Preview)

    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.


    Tuesday 23rd June 2026, 9.00pm

  • PowerBI:
    Protect once, enforce everywhere: Protection policies for Power BI (Generally Available)

    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.

     


    Monday 22nd June 2026, 5.42pm

  • PowerBI:
    Migrating from embedded ODBC drivers to ADBC in Power BI and Fabric

    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.


    Thursday 18th June 2026, 10.10pm

  • PowerBI:
    Microsoft Entra ID single sign-on for the Starburst connector in Power BI (Preview)

    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.


    Thursday 18th June 2026, 4.00pm

  • PowerBI:
    Power BI May 2026 Feature Summary

    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 enhancements, new data connectivity flows, and updates to visualizations—helping you move faster from data to decisions. 


    Wednesday 17th June 2026, 11.07pm

  • PowerBI:
    Workspace outbound access protection for Power BI reports (Preview)

    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.


    Wednesday 17th June 2026, 9.00pm

  • PowerBI:
    Org apps with audiences for Power BI and Fabric (Generally Available)

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


    Tuesday 16th June 2026, 7.00pm

  • PowerBI:
    Simplified Oracle connectivity in Power BI (Preview)

    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.


    Monday 15th June 2026, 5.00pm

  • PowerBI:
    Power BI June 2026 Feature Summary

    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.


    Tuesday 09th June 2026, 7.48pm

  • PowerBI:
    AI-Powered Power BI reporting: From design to deployment with agent skills (Preview)

    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 catalog of agent skills for Microsoft Fabric optimized for GitHub Copilot CLI—this capability allows agents to author reports through natural language, write schema-correct PBIR files, reload Power BI Desktop, capture screenshots, and iteratively refine reports for a seamless, end-to-end authoring experience.


    Monday 08th June 2026, 5.29pm