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The power bi tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft Power BI from an enterprise IT and security perspective. Recent discussions focus on CVE-2026-65811, a Power BI remote code execution vulnerability with no patch or scope details yet, complicating patching workflows. Other threads explore Microsoft 365 Copilot integration with Power BI, including grounding answers in governed data, creating report pages, generating DAX queries, and summarizing semantic models. Practical migration guidance appears for the Intune Data Warehouse beta connector retirement. The tag also touches on free Microsoft learning tracks that include Power BI analytics, positioning the tool within broader Windows-centric IT and AI adoption conversations.
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    Power Automate Process Mining to Fabric: DirectLake Semantic Models and Empty Power BI Reports

    Power Automate Process Mining can publish object-centric process mining results into Microsoft Fabric semantic models, bringing connected process data into Power BI reporting. Microsoft’s documentation confirms that publishing creates a DirectLake semantic model over Fabric Lakehouse Delta...
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    Dynamics 365 Finance Quick-Start OPEX Planning Templates Target October 2026

    Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) teams have spent years trapped in the same onboarding paradox: before you can test whether an enterprise planning tool actually fits your business, you usually have to spend weeks playing data architect. Microsoft is aiming to short-circuit that setup...
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    Dynamics 365 Contact Center: Segment-Level Queue Metrics Expose Transfer Wait Times and SLA Gaps

    In a busy contact center, nothing hides operational chaos quite like a cross-queue transfer. A customer dials in, gets answered in ten seconds by a front-line triage agent, gets transferred to a specialized billing queue, waits twelve agonizing minutes on hold, and finally hangs up in...
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    Business Central 2026: Read-Only Permission APIs for Power BI and Copilot Audits

    Every enterprise IT administrator knows the peculiar dread of the quarterly security audit. Usually, the conversation goes like this: the compliance team wants a complete, granular breakdown of who can access, modify, or delete records inside your ERP system, and they want it yesterday...
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    Business Central 2026 Wave 1: Read-Only Approval Workflow APIs for Auditing

    If you have ever sat across a conference table from an external financial auditor or an internal IT compliance officer while they ask you to prove—down to the timestamp—who approved a vendor bank account change six months ago, you know the cold sweat of enterprise ERP administration. For years...
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    Dynamics 365 Finance Matrix Visual Gets Virtualized Rendering for Large Planning Data

    Microsoft's AI at Work roadmap lists a Dynamics 365 Finance item, "Improved Matrix visual performance for large table." It describes virtualization in the Matrix visual used by Business Performance Planning. The listing shows the status as Launched, with general availability in October 2026 on...
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    Microsoft Fabric Reporting Overhaul: Wilson Group’s Near-Real-Time Data and OneLake Lessons

    Wilson Group says its Microsoft Fabric overhaul has moved reporting from multiday delays to near real time, with daily processing time halved and data-pipeline performance improved by 30%. The figures come from Microsoft’s customer story, rather than an independently audited benchmark. For...
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    Fabric IQ Brings Governed Power BI Data to Copilot: Admin Setup and Limits

    Microsoft wants Copilot to answer business questions using the numbers your finance team already agreed on, not a figure it pieced together from a stray spreadsheet. At the European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference in Barcelona, the company announced a set of changes across Microsoft...
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    Microsoft Fabric IQ at Barcelona 2026: Copilot GA, Fabric Apps Preview and Governance Gaps

    Microsoft wants Fabric to be more than the place where your data sits. It wants Fabric to supply the business context that AI agents draw on when they answer questions or take actions. At the European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference in Barcelona, Microsoft revealed an integration...
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    Microsoft Fabric IQ Grounds Copilot in Power BI: Availability, Permissions and Preview Features — Megathread

    Microsoft wants its AI tools to understand a company’s business, not merely read its files. At the European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference in Barcelona, the company announced changes spanning Power BI-grounded Copilot answers, data sharing, application development, monitoring, SQL...
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    Microsoft Azure Appears in 45% of DevOps and SRE Job Listings

    Oxylabs, a web-data company, looked at about 850,000 U.S. tech job postings from January 2025 through March 2026. New York had the third-most postings in that sample, with roughly 5%, behind California and Texas. Microsoft Azure was the second most-mentioned tool in listings nationwide, and...
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    On-Premises Data Gateway 3000.334: Standard 30-Day Soft Delete Preview

    Microsoft released version 3000.334 of the on-premises data gateway on September 25, 2026. The update gives standard-mode gateways a 30-day soft-delete recovery window and fixes a sign-in problem on Windows Server 2016 installations. It also moves the embedded Log4j library to 2.26.1 and aligns...
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    Microsoft Fabric Planning Billing Starts Aug. 1 With Capacity Rates

    Canlak Coatings, a mid-sized wood-coatings maker based in New Jersey, moved its sales forecast out of emailed Excel workbooks and into Planning in Microsoft Fabric. Microsoft's customer story, published September 25, 2026, says each forecast cycle now takes about one week instead of three to...
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    Power BI Copilot Preview Lets Write Users Edit Semantic Models

    Current guidance on business intelligence (BI) strategy agrees on one point: AI assistants such as Copilot in Power BI are only as reliable as the data and semantic models behind them. As a result, the BI projects worth funding in 2026 are the ones built around specific business decisions, one...
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    Power BI June 2026: Copilot Web Modeling Preview, DAX UDFs GA

    Microsoft's June 2026 Power BI update, version 2.155.756.0, puts semantic models at the centre of AI-assisted analytics. It added Fabric Apps for semantic models and Copilot in web modeling as previews, and made DAX user-defined functions and shape maps generally available. Microsoft also warns...
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    Viva Insights Adds Daily Copilot Power BI Reports, 3-Day Lag

    Microsoft has marked Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 561325 as launched, bringing a day-level Copilot adoption snapshot to Viva Insights’ Copilot Analytics Power BI reporting. The practical change is recency: administrators and analysts can work from activity updated daily rather than relying solely...
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    Microsoft Fabric GCC High Preview: Eligibility and Limits

    Microsoft Fabric has entered public preview for Microsoft’s GCC High environment, giving eligible high-compliance government customers an early path to use Microsoft’s unified data and analytics platform in a sovereign cloud setting. The important qualification is timing: Microsoft announced on...
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    Copilot Notebooks to Add Power BI Report References

    Microsoft plans to let Copilot Notebooks use Power BI reports as notebook references, a targeted change that will let users anchor briefs, summaries, and presentations to a selected business-intelligence report alongside their files. Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 569928 lists the feature as in...
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    CVE-2026-65811 Power BI RCE Has No Patch or Scope Yet

    Microsoft has published CVE-2026-65811, a Power BI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability, in the Security Update Guide. The August 11 advisory establishes that Microsoft recognizes an RCE-class security issue affecting Power BI, but it currently leaves administrators without the details normally...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot: Govern CEO AI Before Adding More Apps

    Analytics Insight’s July 31 roundup of “10 Essential CEO Tools” is really a compact stack built around Microsoft 365 Copilot, ChatGPT, Power BI, Slack, Zoom, Asana, Calendly, and Notion. For Windows-centered organizations, the practical takeaway is less about executive apps than about...