Add Tenant-Level Control to Disable Microsoft Announcement Event and Promotional Banners in Power BI

[bruce_bowie]

Description Currently, Power BI Service displays various Microsoft-driven announcement banners and promotional messages to users, including event promotions (e.g., “FabCon Atlanta”), preview feature announcements, Fabric marketing messages, and other upsell or awareness banners. Microsoft has confirmed in multiple forum threads that there is no tenant-level setting to disable these banners or prevent their display to end users. These include: - Microsoft announcement banners (no global disable option) - Marketing / preview pop-up windows (cannot be disabled) - Promotional notifications & ads via the bell icon (no built-in option to turn them off) This creates challenges for organizations who are: - Maintaining clean, distraction-free environments for operational dashboards - Serving users in regulated or controlled environments - Managing large user populations where UX consistency is critical - Avoiding confusion caused by Microsoft event advertising or feature previews that are irrelevant or not yet approved for internal use.

Requested Feature Please introduce a tenant-level admin control in the Power BI Admin Portal to:

✔️Disable Microsoft-generated announcement banners

✔️Disable Microsoft marketing / promotional messages

✔️Disable preview or campaign pop-ups

✔️Suppress event advertisements (e.g., FabCon)

✔️Optionally allow admins to choose which categories of messages remain enabled This control should apply globally to all users across the tenant.

Justification - Many enterprises require change control, and Microsoft announcements can give users information that is premature or unsupported internally. - Event promotions (e.g., FabCon) are not operationally relevant to end users and cause confusion. - Admins should retain the ability to curate which communications reach their users. - Microsoft already provides tenant-level controls for other platform prompts (e.g., PPU upsell trials), so this aligns with existing governance patterns. - Reducing notification clutter improves UX and allows important organizational notifications to stand out.

Impact if Implemented - Improved operational consistency - Better governance for enterprise deployments - Cleaner dashboards for users working in production environments - Reduced confusion caused by irrelevant Microsoft messaging - Stronger alignment between Microsoft UX and enterprise change management

Closing Thank you for considering this feature. Providing Power BI administrators with the ability to disable Microsoft’s announcement and promotional banners will significantly improve large-scale and regulated deployments of Power BI Service.