Microsoft Power BI Updates Blog

Power BI June 2025 Feature Summary

This month’s update highlights several exciting preview features and an important action-required item for Power BI users. In preview, you’ll find updates to visual calculations, enhancements to numeric range and field parameters, both designed to offer greater flexibility and analytical power within your reports.

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Power BI data lineage experience for dataflows

In modern BI projects, understanding the flow of data from the data source to its destination, and understanding the data transformation done along the way, is a key challenge for many customers. This challenge becomes even bigger if you have built advanced analytical projects spanning multiple data sources, artifacts, and dependencies.  Questions like “What happens …

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On-premises data gateway February update is now available

We are happy to announce that we have just released the February update for the On-premises data gateway (version 3000.1.257)                                          This month’s Gateway update includes an updated version of the Mashup Engine, which matches the …

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Power BI Premium Deployment and Management Whitepaper added!

A new whitepaper authored by Peter Myers presents a comprehensive body of knowledge covering all aspects of deploying, scaling, troubleshooting and managing a Power BI Premium deployment in an enterprise. The whitepaper provides both background information explaiing  how various Power BI concepts play together in an enterprise deployment as well as practical examples of challenges encountered in …

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Tailoring help and support for Power BI users

To ensure employee productivity and satisfaction with Power BI, enterprise organizations develop comprehensive product training, bolster their help desks, and invest in helping their user communities with internal forums to share ideas and best practices. But it can be a challenge to educate users about the availability of these organizational resources. The exciting news is …

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Python visualizations in Power BI Service

With our February update of Power BI, you can now share, publish and view Python visuals in your reports and dashboards. This update extends the support for Python in the Power BI Desktop to the Power BI service. This ability completes the support for Python in Power BI, enabling you to use Python scripts to …

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Power BI Developer community January update

  This blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI Developers community. Don’t forget to check out our latest developer blog post, if you haven’t done so already. Embedded analytics   Here is the list of updates for embedded analytics…   Automation & life-cycle management Use Power BI API with service principal (Preview) Schedule …

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Insights made easy with Power BI Template Apps

Data is most valuable when it leads to informed action. Making it easier for people to get actionable insights is what Power BI is all about. Now, with Power BI Template Apps, users can immediately begin exploring, learning, and taking action on key data with off-the-shelf apps. Template Apps are integrated packages of pre-built Power …

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End-User Filtered Export capabilities now available

For the third straight week, we’re delivering on the item I’ve heard more end-user feedback around than any other we’d promised to deliver in the October blogpost.  At long last, you and your users will be able to export their Power BI reports to either PDF or PowerPoint and have their selections on the screen …

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