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Deprecation of Power BI Integration within SharePoint Lists and Libraries

Power BI integration within SharePoint lists and libraries is going to be retired. This change impacts customers who currently use the 'Visualize the List' or 'Visualize the Library' feature to create or access reports directly from SharePoint.

This blog post provides details about the deprecation timeline and recommended alternatives to continue working with SharePoint list data in Power BI.

Deprecation Timeline

Date Action
November 11th, 2025No new reports can be created from a SharePoint list or library using Visualize the list or the library
December 11th, 2025Any previously published reports created using this integration will no longer be available.

Recommended alternatives

Explore and analyze SharePoint list data in Power BI through the following approaches:

1. Export to Power BI directly from SharePoint list

You can quickly create a semantic model in the Power BI service directly from a SharePoint list.

To learn more, refer to the Create a semantic model from a SharePoint List documentation.

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Once the semantic model is ready, you can explore your data with just a few clicks using Auto-create report, offering a similar experience to 'Visualize the List' or 'Visualize the Library'.

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To learn more about how to use autogenerated 'quick' reports in Power BI, check out Create a Power BI semantic model directly from a SharePoint list documentation.

2. Create a report on a SharePoint List in Power BI Desktop

If you need advanced modelling or data transformation, you can connect to the SharePoint list from Power BI Desktop.

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You can find more information about how to create a report on a SharePoint List in Power BI Desktop in the Create a report on a SharePoint List in Power BI Desktop documentation.

Admin guidance for identifying affected workspaces

Admins can use the Admin Groups API to find all workspaces ending in "SPList", which correspond to those created by the SharePoint list integration.

Example HTTP request:

GET https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/admin/groups?$filter=endswith(name,'SPList')&$expand=reports,users&$top=5000

Learn more about the Admin Groups API here: Admin - Groups GetGroupAsAdmin - REST API (Power BI Power BI REST APIs) | Microsoft Learn

Important notice and call to action

Starting December 11, 2025, all reports previously created using the 'Visualize the List' or 'Visualize the Library' features will become permanently unavailable.

To avoid data loss, we strongly recommend that users recreate any critical reports using the alternative methods outlined above before this date.