📢📢🔥🔥 The early-bird ticket sales are now OPEN for the biggest #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric #Virtual #Conference of the year; Power BI & Fabric Summit. Join us for the 6th year of the popular gathering of the Microsoft #DataAnalytics crowd, learn, network, and have fun. sessions and speakers will be announced in the next few weeks globalpowerbisummit.com/ #Microsoft #Fabric #Analytics #Visualization #DAX #PowerQuery #SemanticModel #DataModeling #DataWarehousing #DataEngineering #OneLake #DataIntegration #DataFactory #RTI #RealTimeIntelligence #DataScience #Copilot #GenerativeAI #MicrosoftAI #BusinessIntelligence #Data #Database #DataPlatform #Architecture #BestPractice

New theme UI. Color palettes without losing your custom settings. Custom themes now control page size. Theming moving into the Format Pane — live preview as you edit. Style presets in one click. 🎬 youtube.com/shorts/PuMGL0e9L… #PowerBI #PowerBIThemes #CustomThemes #ReportDesign #MicrosoftFabric #PowerBITips #FabricInsider

Real-Time Intelligence. Fabric IQ. Microsoft Fabric. I sat down with Yitzhak Kesselman — CVP for Real-Time Intelligence at Microsoft — for one of the most forward-looking conversations in the Fabric Insider series yet. RTI myths busted. Fabric IQ explained. Agentic era. What comes next. All in one episode. 🎬 youtu.be/euaMnOWD81Y #MicrosoftFabric #RealTimeIntelligence #FabricIQ #FabricInsider #PowerBI #RTI

PBIX is on its way out. Meet PBIP — the Power BI Project file format. One file → a full folder structure. Report and semantic model stored separately. Git-ready out of the box. 🎬 youtube.com/shorts/ULz38Bc2Y… #PowerBI #PBIP #TMDL #MicrosoftFabric #PowerBIDeveloper

🏗️ Microsoft Build 2026. I was there. Tons of announcements. One keynote that reframes everything. I put it all in one place — Maia 200, Cobalt 200, Project Solara, Majorana 2, GitHub Copilot App, Web IQ, Autopilots, Microsoft Scout, Rayfin, Azure HorizonDB, GPU-accelerated Fabric DW, DAX UDFs GA, Fabric IQ GA, and much more. #MicrosoftBuild #MSBuild #MicrosoftFabric #PowerBI #AgenticAI #RADACAD #Microsoft linkedin.com/pulse/radacad-m…

𝐖𝐎𝐖 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐑𝐄 𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭. 𝐍𝐨 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬. 𝐍𝐨 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩. 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞. youtu.be/zndWuBB1JTo The Power BI Semantic Model is not what it used to be. Not even close. For episode #5 of the #FabricInsider, I sat down with Christian Wade — 𝐌𝐫. 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐲 𝐃𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐲 — PM for Power BI Semantic Models at Microsoft. And this episode will blow your mind. And that is just one part of what we covered: 🔐 OneLake Security — and why it changes how you think about data access ⚡ DirectLake on OneLake vs. DirectLake on SQL — they are not the same thing 🔀 Composite models mixing Direct Lake and Import — what works, what doesn't 👤 User-context-aware calculated columns — UserPrincipalName, UserCulture, CustomData — on the fly or pre-calculated? 📝 TMDL on the web — and why every semantic model developer should be using it 🤖 AI agent building a full semantic model live — Mr. Clicky Clicky Draggy Droppy didn't click a single thing 😄 #PowerBI #MicrosoftFabric #SemanticModel #DirectLake #TMDL #OneLake #FabricInsider #PowerBITips #DataModeling #BusinessIntelligence #AIAgents #PowerBIDeveloper #DataEngineering #DataAnalytics #MicrosoftBuild

Power BI Date Slicer and Date Picker are getting a full makeover in 2026 🗓️ Straight from the Microsoft product team @DataZoePowerBI — a proper calendar-style date picker, a revamped date slicer, and a cohesive modern slicer family. Finally. 🎬 youtube.com/shorts/ATbzr0_E7… #PowerBI #DateSlicer #MicrosoftFabric #PowerBITips #RADACAD

Power BI is finally getting "Set as Landing Page." @DataZoePowerBI Right-click on a page → Set as Landing Page → Done. No more navigating back to page 1 before hitting Publish. No more team checklists. No more reopening the report just to republish from the right page. Small feature. Huge relief. ▶️ youtube.com/shorts/JLrwr9Wyu… #PowerBI #MicrosoftFabric #PowerBITips #FabricInsider #DataAnalytics #BusinessIntelligence@

The Power BI Card Visual updates and Fixed sizes for grids youtube.com/shorts/kEqq8z1KS… In this clip from my interview with @DataZoePowerBI (Feature PM at Microsoft) #PowerBI #PowerBITips #DataVisualization #MicrosoftFabric #CardVisual #PowerBIDesktop #FabricInsider #PowerBIUpdates

Your Power BI report now speaks every language. Automatically. No complex workarounds. No multiple reports. No hacks. The new User-Context-Aware Calculated Column in Power BI changes everything for multi-lingual reporting. One DAX function — USERCULTURE() — detects who's viewing the report and serves them translated values automatically. Right from the semantic model. One model. Every language. Zero friction. I just published a full video walking you through exactly how to build this — from model design to a working multi-lingual Power BI report. #PowerBI #DAX #MicrosoftFabric #SemanticModel #PowerBITips #MultiLingual #DataTranslation #USERCULTURE #PowerBIDeveloper #BusinessIntelligence #DataAnalytics #RADACAD #PowerBI2026 #DataModeling #MicrosoftPowerBI 🎥 Watch the full video here: youtu.be/attOboV4ZO8

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐒𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐫 (𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐒𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐫) 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐈 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠! youtube.com/shorts/syPGXELJr… I sat down with Zoe Douglas, Feature PM at Microsoft, in Episode 2 of Fabric Insider to go deep on this and everything else coming to Power BI visualization. #PowerBI #InputSlicer #MicrosoftFabric #FabricInsider #PowerBITips #DataAnalytics #BusinessIntelligence #PowerBIDesktop #PowerBIUpdates #DataVisualization #RADACAD #RezaRad #PowerBISlicer #PowerBIVisuals #Microsoft

This blog post details how to create a Private Link Workspace (which means no public/internet access) successfully in #MicrosoftFabric fourmoo.com/2026/05/28/creat…

🚀 This week's newsletter is out! AI building Power BI models with no code. Spark performance secrets from the Microsoft engineering team. Power BI file formats explained. Power Query deep dive with the PM behind it at Microsoft. Plus the latest Power BI & Fabric updates — all in one place. 👇 Read it here: radacad.activehosted.com/ind… #PowerBI #MicrosoftFabric #DataAnalytics #FabricInsider #AIinBI

"Spark is slow in Fabric." No. Your configuration is slow. Episode 4 of Fabric Insider is out — with Santhosh Kumar Ravindran from the Microsoft Fabric team. Custom Live Pools. Resource Profiles. The real reason your Spark jobs underperform. All covered. No fluff. 🎙️ Guest: Santhosh Kumar Ravindran 🎬 YouTube: youtu.be/VayYW4REKzc #MicrosoftFabric #Spark #FabricDataEngineering #ApacheSpark #FabricInsider #DataEngineering #CustomLivePools #ResourceProfiles #FabCon #PowerBI #CloudComputing #DataScience #FabricSpark #MicrosoftData #DataPlatform

We rebuilt the design of the #RADACAD website after almost 8 years. This was on my to-do list for such a long time. Finally, the technology allowed me to do it fast; we got help from #Claude #LLM #AI and some magic from Mahshid Nabati from our team, and here it is, blazing fast performance and a new look all in one. Go and check it out here: radacad.com #PowerBI #DataAnalytics #Analytics #BusinessIntelligence #MicrosoftFabric

Data integration is silently killing your analytics project. 🚨 youtube.com/shorts/5XXbMi_9p… Month 1: "We brought the sales data in." Month 3: "We brought inventory in." Month 12: "We've integrated everything." — but still no reports. No insights. No value. And then the project gets cancelled. The fix? Don't minimize integration. Minimize the time before value is visible. Watch this short video to see how modern tools like Microsoft Fabric can help you break the black hole cycle. Link will be in the comments 👇 #PowerBI #MicrosoftFabric #DataIntegration #BusinessIntelligence #Analytics #DataEngineering #BI #DataStrategy #AnalyticsProjects #MedallionArchitecture #DataPlatform #DataAnalytics #FabricDataFactory #ETL #DataLeadership

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐈 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐈 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐤𝐭𝐨𝐩. 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞. I just published a video showing exactly how to do this — using Claude AI and the Power BI Modeling MCP Server together. No code. No Desktop. Just a conversation with AI. Here's what you can do with this setup: 🔹 Create tables, relationships, and measures — through chat 🔹 Modify your Power BI model without writing DAX manually 🔹 Set up the entire modeling layer without touching Power BI Desktop 🔹 Get it all done faster than any traditional approach And in the video, I walk you through: ✅ What's possible with Claude Power BI MCP Server ✅ Step-by-step setup so you can replicate it yourself This is not a future concept. It works today. The era of no-code Power BI development is here — and AI is your new development environment. 🎥 Watch the full video — youtu.be/L30OFUrfah8 #PowerBI #ClaudeAI #MicrosoftFabric #NoCode #AITools #PowerBITips #DataModeling #MCP #ArtificialIntelligence #BusinessIntelligence #DataAnalytics #PowerBIDeveloper #AIAgent #MicrosoftAI #DataPlatform

Analytics project Failure: Why Users Keep Asking for an Export to excel youtube.com/shorts/yVyTuikas… There are multiple reasons why an analytics project fails. One of them is giving the users facts and not the information, which sometimes appears in the format of giving the users the ability to export the data to Excel. Have you had that situation? What did you do to improve the analytics project results? #DataAnalytics #Analytics #PowerBI #MicrosoftFabric #BestPractice #AnalyticsFailure #AnalyticsSuccess #RADACAD

𝐒𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐲 I sat down with Miguel Angel Escobar — Principal Program Manager on the Data Integration team at Microsoft — and we went deep. Not surface level. Deep. Here's what we unpacked in this episode of Fabric Insider: 🔹 Power Query explained for someone who has never touched it 🔹 Web vs Desktop vs Excel — and what the unification plan actually looks like 🔹 What Power Query Online can do that the desktop version simply can't 🔹 The performance enhancements you should know about — and what's happening under the hood 🔹 The big question: Dataflow vs SQL vs Python — which one should you actually use for data transformation? 🔹 Dataflow CU consumption — yes, it's been a pain point. Has it been fixed? Miguel answers directly. 🔹 My Queries — a feature most people haven't explored yet 🔹 What's coming on the roadmap This is the kind of conversation you don't get from documentation. Straight from the people building it. 🎥 Watch the full episode → youtu.be/mgxEYGKgYis 🔗 Connect with Miguel Escobar → linkedin.com/in/escobarmigue… 💡 Share your ideas for Microsoft Fabric → ideas.fabric.microsoft.com 💬 Join the Fabric community on Reddit → reddit.com/r/MicrosoftFabric… 📺 Fabric Insider full playlist → youtube.com/watch?v=PDEYc37V… #PowerQuery #PowerBI #MicrosoftFabric #Dataflows #DataEngineering #ETL #DataTransformation #DataIntegration #FabricInsider #PowerBICommunity #FabricCommunity #DataPlatform #DataAnalytics #BusinessIntelligence #PowerBITips #MQuery #PowerQueryOnline #Microsoft #DataProfessionals #LearningDataEngineering