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Stuck translating Excel skills to Power BI's alien data models and DAX? This space delivers weekly breakdowns of real Fabric updates, Copilot DAX generators, and Direct Lake shortcuts that fix broken refreshes and inherited query messes. Open Power BI with Excel-level confidence and ship dashboards your boss relies on daily.
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Power BI Foundation Microcourse
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Power BI JumpStart Challenge
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Power BI SkillsBuilder
8 lessons
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6 reasons why Power BI is better than Excel for Reports and Dashboards
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Power BI StepUp Challenge
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Power BI Data Model Pathfinder
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Power BI PathFinder Challenge (DAX)
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AI builds complete Power BI data model in minutes
A developer used GitHub Copilot and Claude AI to build a full Power BI data model from a requirements document. It generated TMDL files for tables, relationships, and DAX measures, deploying directly to Microsoft Fabric's Direct Lake mode. The workflow includes automatic validation and error fixes, cutting build time from hours to minutes. Requires a pre-set star schema lakehouse and clean source data.
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Microsoft releases local server letting AI manage Fabric data
Microsoft releases Fabric Local MCP server, an open-source tool letting AI agents generate code, access OneLake files, and execute Fabric CLI commands from local machines. VS Code extension simplifies setup. Remote MCP preview enables cloud operations with permissions. This shifts Power BI from manual fixes for complex queries and refreshes to AI-driven automation, reducing IT tickets and manual work.
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Power BI adds calculated columns to fast Direct Lake data mode
Power BI's April 2026 update adds preview support for calculated columns and tables in Direct Lake mode. This computes values on the fly from large OneLake datasets without imports or extra storage. It supports DAX functions like user details and an improved NAMEOF for cleaner code. Previously, custom calculations required slower Import mode with long refreshes; now Direct Lake handles them at full speed for sub-second dashboards.
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Microsoft previews dbt support in Fabric pipelines
Microsoft previews dbt support in Fabric pipelines, enabling direct execution of dbt jobs for transforming raw data into analysis-ready tables. Pipelines handle model building, running, testing, with dynamic parameters and dependencies. This eliminates slow Power Query chains or separate dbt runs, delivering clean data to Power BI semantic models for faster, reliable dashboards.
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Microsoft Fabric adds read-only data agents to query Power BI models
Microsoft Fabric adds read-only Data Agents that enable AI applications to query Lakehouses and Power BI semantic models using SQL, DAX or KQL. Deployment uses REST APIs with Fabric permissions for secure access. This resolves manual DAX querying issues that break under filters or refreshes, preventing AI failures and exposing model flaws early.
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2026 Update: Master Dataflows in Power BI
Power BI Dataflows Gen1 is legacy as of April 2026, replaced by Gen2 with mandatory Git/CI/CD, Fabric storage options like Lakehouse, Copilot AI authoring, modern .NET 8 engine, REST APIs, and branched workspaces. Original Northwind demos now use relative references and variable libraries for enterprise-scale data transformation.
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⚡ Microsoft is rapidly retiring Power BI Premium and Gen1 dataflows while pushing Fabric adoption, forcing urgent workflow migrations for mid-sized teams.
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Without this space
- Wrestling Excel Power Pivot into undocumented Power BI models
- Debugging invisible DAX errors during fragile refreshes
- Manually recreating 200+ Power Query steps for Fabric migration
- Chasing silent Fabric refresh failures without alerts
With this space
- A seamless path from Power Pivot to governed Fabric models
- The Copilot pane spotting and fixing DAX breaks instantly
- A copy-paste method shifting queries to Fabric Dataflows
- The email alerts catching every Fabric refresh failure
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