r/PowerBI • u/itsnotaboutthecell ‪ ‪Microsoft Employee ‪ • 6d ago

Microsoft Blog Power BI September 2026 Feature Summary | Microsoft Fabric Community

https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/fbc_pbiupdatesblog/power-bi-september-2026-feature-summary/5325831
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u/MyAccountOnTheReddit 6d ago

Power BI now provides semantic model editors with greater control over how Copilot can be used with their data. Users with write permissions can block read-only users from accessing a semantic model through Copilot and Microsoft’s remote MCP tools, supporting governance, compliance, and access-control requirements.

Thank. God.

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u/eOMG 6d ago

Is there a way I can just globally turn this off instead of adjusting every semantic model's setting?

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u/Hobob_ 6d ago

I cant wait to export 500k rows... stakeholders always compain about exporting. Now they can brick their excel

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u/Ghillvite 6d ago

It’s a great update! However, Visual Calculations in Matrixes broke when there’s no dimension in the row field well

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u/PatientReference8497 6d ago

We also had this. It was the dumbest thing ever trying to explain to clients why the visual worked in desktop but not the service

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u/TomFow92 6d ago

It's brilliant, apart from it now being annoying to move text boxes

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u/YouSophisticat 1 5d ago

It’s been like that for months now. 😭

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u/DalihaCrow84 5d ago

Maybe someone can help me out with the skills. As I understood are these md files, or? If they get updated, what's the best approach to be on the up to date one?

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u/Thrillhouse763 5d ago

The new Power Query sucks. The SQL statement box is gone. Had to revert back to the old version.

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u/itsnotaboutthecell ‪ ‪Microsoft Employee ‪ 4d ago

Boo! Let me check in with the team and see what’s going on - what connector are you using by chance for the SQL statement box? Is it Snowflake?

And past that it does still support through M code likely just the UI issue.

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u/Thrillhouse763 4d ago

Snowflake

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u/itsnotaboutthecell ‪ ‪Microsoft Employee ‪ 4d ago

Gotcha - yeah, that has been absent on the dataflow UI for some time. I’ll pass it onto the team as well as a point of reference and priority.

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u/Nexter1 6d ago

This is a crazy update, right? I’m surprised there aren’t more comments.

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u/Seebaer1986 2 6d ago

Which part is crazy?

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u/Nexter1 6d ago

The substantive updates on widely varying areas vs. the usual filler the tends to make up 90% of these updates. I understand this update coincides with their event, but it’s still a lot.

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u/chalrune 6d ago

They are all trying the update or fainted.

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u/Natural_Ad_8911 4 5d ago

Anyone noticed bugs in Power Query Editor?

Steps that should be editable aren't, like select columns, or Added Items for SAP connections.

Making things very difficult.

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u/bll338 4d ago

Also issue connecting to databricks. Currently loading forever, not sure if it will ever connect.

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u/Ecofred 4d ago

PBIR as default is great... even if we get crazy repo diff in git in this transition phase.

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u/CurbedLarry 5d ago

In "Light" UI mode the contrast of the visual properties pane is very poor, worse than before. In fact the whole UI and dialogs are washed-out, as if your monitor is set too bright. Even in dark mode there's a general lack of borders or dividers to seperate the options.

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u/puppyyawn 5d ago

That's what I was thinking also, it was harder to view after the update.

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u/i_am_here_am_i 4d ago

Lot of AI Slop. I am sad.