Power BI reports can now ground Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork chats
Reviewed by Helen Jones
Microsoft put the Fabric IQ plugin for Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork into preview for Power BI customers. It is installed by default. Users can ground a Cowork chat in a Power BI report by attaching the report, pasting a link, or referring to it by name. Cowork then queries the report and its semantic model as the signed-in user, so existing permissions and row-level security still apply. Answers can feed straight into other Cowork skills such as drafting email, creating a document, or scheduling a meeting. Sensitivity labels from the grounding item carry over to new content. There is no extra Fabric capacity or Premium Per User licence required beyond what the Power BI content already needs. The preview does not support paginated reports, classic dashboards, share links, lakehouses, or direct semantic model name references, and answers do not include citations back to the source report.
Until now, a Power BI report was usually the end of the path. Someone opened the report, maybe exported to Excel, then retyped the story into email or a slide. The report and the action lived in different places, which at least forced a human pause before numbers became a decision. That pause is shrinking. A report can now start a conversation that drafts the follow-up work inside Microsoft 365. If the semantic model, KPI definitions, and row-level security are clean, that is useful. If the model is messy or the metric is still argued about in meetings, Cowork will still write confident emails and documents on top of it. The weak point is no longer only the dashboard. It is every downstream message that looks official because it came from the chat.
Analysis
Treat this as a trust amplifier, not a productivity freebie. Pick one endorsed report with verified answers and clear RLS, ground a Cowork chat on it, ask for a short status email or summary document, then compare every number in that draft against the report before you let stakeholders try the same path.
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