Currently, Excel workbooks connected to a Power BI / Microsoft Fabric semantic model (for example, via Analyze in Excel or Power BI dataset connections) do not automatically refresh when the underlying semantic model is updated. Users must manually open the Excel file and trigger a refresh for the latest data to be reflected.   Current Behavior The semantic model refreshes successfully in Power BI / Fabric. Data refresh occurs only when: The Excel file is opened in Excel Desktop, or A manual refresh is triggered. Expected / Desired Behavior Provide an option to automatically refresh Excel workbooks when the connected semantic model completes a refresh, especially for files stored in OneDrive or SharePoint while opening a report in Excel web. ... View more

**Problem:** The Event Hubs Spark connector bundled with Fabric requires a custom Java/Scala callback class (`AadAuthenticationCallback`) to use AAD/Managed Identity authentication. In Fabric's managed notebook environment, it's not feasible to compile and deploy custom JVM classes — notebook-defined classes fail with `ClassNotFoundException` on executors.   This means organizations that disable SAS/local auth on Event Hubs (a common enterprise security policy) **cannot use the Spark Event Hubs connector at all** in Fabric.   **Additionally,** Fabric Eventstream also only supports SAS keys for Event Hub connections, creating a second blocker.   **Ask:** 1. Add a built-in `DefaultAzureCredential`-based callback to the Spark Event Hubs connector so `useAadAuth=true` works out of the box — no custom JARs needed 2. Add Managed Identity / Entra ID authentication support to Eventstream's Event Hub source connector   **Impact:** Any Fabric customer with enterprise security policies that require Managed Identity authentication for Event Hubs is currently blocked from real-time ingestion through supported connectors. ... View more

When creating a report in the service using an Excel or CSV source, it's not possible to download the report, which is a known limitation. However, it would be helpful if a banner could pop up to notify users of this while creating the report directly from the service. ... View more

Currently, the only available authentication method is the Organizational Account. Service Principal and Workspace Identity authentication methods are required.   Lakehouse connector overview - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn ... View more

The bookmark navigator does not show the correct selected state when you leave a report and then come back to it, which can create confsion for end users and even result in erronous reporting of metrics. I could replicate the issue in a report Reid Havens built and recorded a quick video showing this. You can also download this standalone pbix and replicate the issue for yourself on your end (the pbix describes the issue and how to replicate).   Other reports of this: Bookmark Navigator - wrong button state after reop... - Microsoft Fabric Community Make the selected button from Bookmark navigator, ... - Microsoft Fabric Community ... View more

It would be nice for app only users (no access to the underlying premium workspace) be able to search for a report that is in an app they have access to while in the PBI service. Currently it is only searchable to those added to the workspace. ... View more

Scheduling Hub   It would be great to to be able to see which items in your fabric workspace (and capacity) have schedules and if they are on or off. A bonus feature would allow you to enable and disable the schedules right from the list view (editing could still open the item in the editor and open the scheduling pane).   Being able to manage schedules from a central location is helpful in 'emergency' scenarios where you need to turn off all the pipelines and notebooks for a workspace. It could also be useful to ensure developers are not mismanaging schedules in Dev or Feature Branch workspaces (where we might typically not want them running). A whole set of useful columns are possible: Item Name  <click on the name to go to the item!> Item Type Workspace Schedule Type Next Scheduled Run Last Scheduled Run   Icons.. Edit Pencil, Enable/Disable, Trash Can The possibilities are endless!   ... View more

To address the challenges of organizing and presenting data due to the limitations of column and row headers, a potential solution would be to implement a new matrix visual with customizable controls, allowing report creators to adjust the dimensions of columns and rows, group them hierarchically, apply diverse styles, and use conditional formatting. ... View more

Is there any way that Power BI Service provides a built‑in rule or setting to automatically stop a semantic model refresh, dataflow refresh, or paginated report execution after a custom duration such as 30 minutes. ... View more

Currently, the Capacity metrics app only shows data from the last 14 days regarding Capacity Consumption. This amount of data is insufficient, and the Customer would prefer to view capacity consumption by month to better understand their monthly usage. To get 30 days of data, they must manually export the 14-day data, as there is no automation for this process. This makes it difficult for the Customer to review their Capacity consumption for an entire month. ... View more

The request is to ensure Schedules are not included in the definition of a Data Pipeline for purposes of Deployment Pipelines.   Today, when we deploy content across environments, the item frequently appears as “different” because the schedule configuration is included in the comparison. This creates constant noise and makes it harder to identify meaningful differences.   More importantly, a schedule configured in DEV or TEST can be promoted into PROD as part of a deployment. This creates a real operational risk and is unacceptable — PROD scheduling must be managed independently and explicitly, not carried over from lower environments. ... View more

OpenLineage lets you trace a large number of ETL jobs that mutates tables, letting you trace changes to tables significantly easier. Databricks Unity Catalog has support for Column Level Lineage and it's highly useful: View data lineage using Unity Catalog - Azure Databricks | Microsoft Learn Databricks Demo   AWS also supports OpenLineage:  Amazon DataZone introduces OpenLineage-compatible data lineage visualization in preview | AWS Big Data Blog It's actually quite easy to get OpenLineage working in Fabric Spark since you already have the JAR pre-installed: Column level lineage in Fabric Spark with OpenLineage and stashing the lineage in Delta Lake | Raki Rahman   All we need is a way to store and query historical state (e.g. in Delta Lake), and a UI component that hooks into the Lakehouse catalog and offers an API on top of OpenLineage schema. The OneLake Catalog UI could look like this:   To prove this can be fairly easily achieved since the OpenLineage events are robust with a stable schema, I vibe-coded this little static site that works with the default Fabric Spark OpenLineage events: Marquito — OpenLineage Visualizer       ... View more

New Desktop app update installed an almost white user interface. There is zero contrast which is not good for the eyes. I see where some people have requested a light interface so incorporate an option to select either light or dark theme like in the Office apps. ... View more

The app publishing failure was caused by a tenant‑level setting, which was identified only through local browser traces. However, the Power BI UI displays a generic error message (“Failed to publish app”) without providing any specific error or warning to indicate the root cause. If the UI exposed a clear and actionable error or warning message similar to what is available in browser traces it would significantly reduce troubleshooting time and allow issues like this to be resolved within minutes. We recommend enhancing the UI error messaging during app publishing to surface tenant‑level configuration issues more transparently. ... View more

Possibility for Power BI Apps to choose content across different Workspaces. ... View more

Hi, I think it's very useful and important to be able to specify dynamic content about the data of a connection, e.g. server, database, URL and so on, without creating a different connection for each environment (dev, test, prod). Let's remember Azure Data Factory. Thanks. Work better to work less. ... View more

Power BI displays numbers correctly based on regional settings (e.g., comma as decimal separator), but copying values exposes the raw floating‑point value with a dot separator. Please add an option to copy the formatted (displayed) value so locale, rounding, and readability are preserved. ... View more

Need a direct option to restore deleted report in the workspace ... View more

Currently when there is an outage as per the tenant setting Service interruption notifications - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn customer will erceive notification for the following reliability scenarios: Open report reliability Model refresh reliability Query refresh reliability Notifications are sent when there's an extended delay in operations like opening reports, semantic model refresh, or query executions. After an incident is resolved, you receive a follow-up email.   As the current tenant setting is limited to reports and semantic models, we would like to have an option that enables customers to receive all outage-related notifications for both Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. ... View more