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Plugins add AI audit skill for Power BI and Fabric tenants
Developers updated Power BI agentic plugins with Fabric CLI skills for tags, recovery, permissions, and OneLake queries. New tenant audit skill scans settings across Fabric and Power BI. PBIP skills detect broken project files. Weekly releases speed improvements. Works in Claude Code UI. Community shows strong interest with 47 likes.
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Guide details Copilot setup for AI-assisted Power BI data models
Windows users install Power BI Modeling MCP Server and Microsoft Fabric MCP Server extensions to enable GitHub Copilot for editing PBIP semantic models as code. Copilot detects issues and suggests fixes, aligning with Microsoft's TMDL and DAX function previews. This shifts Power BI from drag-and-drop to programmable developer workflows.
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Microsoft updates Copilot pane in Power BI reports
Microsoft updated the Copilot pane in Power BI reports to match the standalone Copilot interface across products. Starting suggestions disappear when conversation begins but reopen via book icon. Input box stays active during processing, copy button moves to response bottom. This unifies the UI, reducing confusion for users managing data visuals and measures.
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Corporate Power BI rollouts are collapsing under the weight of bad data models
Corporate Power BI rollouts fail at scale when organizations distribute licenses without centralized data models. Analysts write complex DAX to fix poor relationships, leading to overwritten reports and broken dashboards. Enterprises shift to governed models, role-based security, and design systems to enable maintainable BI.
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Microsoft details how to move Excel Power Pivot models into Power BI
Microsoft provides a formal migration path to transfer Excel Power Pivot models into Power BI Desktop. It preserves Power Query transformations and DAX formulas but excludes Excel tables, pivot charts, cell formulas, and VBA. Users must rebuild reports in Power BI. This saves time on manual rebuilds but highlights the need for proper data modeling to avoid slow performance.
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Microsoft Fabric Copilot builds real-time dashboard visuals from text
Microsoft Fabric Copilot preview enables analysts to build and edit real-time dashboard visuals using natural language. It generates Kusto Query Language (KQL) from text prompts, previews data, and suggests visuals. This removes the KQL learning barrier, letting analysts focus on design, but requires verifying data cleanliness and query accuracy to avoid errors.
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