Microsoft Weekly News
- PowerBI:
Power BI June 2026 Feature SummaryThis 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
- PowerBI:
Copilot in web modeling (Preview)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.
Thursday 04th June 2026, 11.36pm
- PowerBI:
Power BI at Microsoft Build 2026: The Agentic Era of analyticsMicrosoft Build 2026 brings the next generation of intelligent analytics to Power BI—where agents do the building, apps deliver insights everywhere, and the platform gets more powerful for every user.
Thursday 04th June 2026, 11.35pm
- PowerBI:
Building in the Agentic Era with Power BI and FabricMicrosoft 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 models and reports, and Fabric Apps for Semantic Models, which enable AI agents to build and deploy Fabric-native web apps on semantic models. Both capabilities will accelerate the time it takes to go from raw data to a polished analytics solution with just natural language prompts.
Wednesday 03rd June 2026, 9.20pm
- PowerBI:
DAX User-Defined Functions (Generally Available)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.
Tuesday 02nd June 2026, 4.00pm
- PowerBI:
Power BI Tenant Migration: Trade-offs, risks, and realitiesAuthor: Winnie Li, Cloud Solution Architect
Friday 22nd May 2026, 3.05pm
- PowerBI:
Power BI May 2026 Feature SummaryAuthor: 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 20th May 2026, 7.00pm
- PowerBI:
New Power Query experience in Power BI Desktop (Preview)Authored by: Sara Lammini Rodriguez - Product Manager II, and Miguel Escobar - Senior Product Manager
Wednesday 20th May 2026, 5.30pm
- PowerBI:
Outbound Access Protection for semantic models (Preview)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 preview, you can now extend OAP to semantic models. Power BI reports aren't part of this preview yet; report support is coming in a separate announcement soon.
Tuesday 19th May 2026, 5.00pm