Power BI Report Server January 2026 Feature Summary
Welcome to January 2026 Power BI Report Server feature summary! These updates bring new capabilities and enhancements across Reporting and Visualizations, maintaining our commitment to delivering powerful, flexible, and enterprise-ready reporting solutions. For more information on how to find your report server product key, refer to the documentation. Visualizations features This release includes a variety of new and updated visuals from Microsoft partners and the broader community. These visuals enable richer storytelling, advanced exploration, and more engaging report experiences. Activity Gauge by Powerviz Decomposition Tree – All Expanding Dynamic chart legends in Zebra BI Charts Drill Down Bubble PRO by ZoomCharts Power Gantt Chart by Nova Silva Turn any image into data insights with Synoptic Panel by OKVIZ Sankey Chart by Powerviz Your Timeline Slicer: Reimagining Date Filtering for Modern Dashboards Drill Down Scatter PRO by ZoomCharts Multiple Sparklines Performance Bar by JTA Financial Reporting Matrix v8.2 ADWISE Advanced Column v 2.0 Zebra BI Tables: Calculated Reports in One Click and Brand Images Word Cloud by Powerviz Drill Down Combo Bar PRO by ZoomCharts CAGR Arrows Now in Zebra BI Charts Reporting features This release also includes several reporting enhancements to improve layout behavior, visual styling, and interaction options to help you build polished, intuitive, and modern reports. Automatically expand matrix columns to fill available space Card visual (Generally Available) Enhancing Image visuals with styling, states, and more Button slicer (Generally Available) Automatically expand table columns to fill available space Performance analyzer available when editing a report in the web This concludes the feature summary for January 2026. Please follow this blog for updates on upcoming releases. As a reminder, Power BI Report Server releases occur in January, May, and September. Thank you for using Power BI Report Server!
The Dos and Don'ts of migrating from other BI tools to Power BI!
"I have so many customers wanting to migrate from legacy BI tools to Power BI. They are concerned that their current BI tool has an uncertain future. Licence renewals are looming and in the current economic climate organisations are looking to save money. Power BI is not only a lot cheaper than other BI tools, it’s a better tool overall and since Microsoft continues to make big investments in it then migration is clearly a no-brainer." This talk is about what to watch out for when it comes to migration to Power BI from legacy BI tools.Paginated Reports with and without Power BI Datasets: When, Why and How?
Rescheduled - Reporting Services - Migration to Power BI Monthly User Group Event Paul will discuss scenarios for using paginated reports from a Power BI dataset and from a source database, providing use cases for each. He will also demonstrate how use a paginated report as a drill through target from Power BI to a transactional report based on the same data source.Making Paginated Reports More Accessible
A few tweaks to your paginated reports can make your reports usable for more people. Your design choices help or hinder your report consumers from accomplishing their data analysis goals. You can adopt accessible design habits to make reports usable for people with visual and cognitive disabilities with a few small tweaks to your normal report creation process. Join this session to discuss how to make reports with good color contrast that work better with screen readers. We'll also talk about how descriptive titles and explanatory text can improve accessibility and make reports easier to understand.Power BI, Excel and Paginated Reports – better together!
In today's data-driven world, it's no secret that effective reporting is essential for successful decision-making. However, not all users have the same reporting preferences. Some prefer Excel, others prefer Power BI, and some require printed versions of the data. The good news is that recent updates to Excel, Power BI, and Paginated Reports allow for more integration and flexibility in meeting these reporting needs. In this session, we will explore different ways to leverage the strengths of Excel, Power BI, and Paginated Reports to create powerful and insightful reporting solutions that cater to all users' needs. Our goal is to provide attendees with the knowledge and tools they need to meet the diverse reporting needs of their organizations and stakeholders. Join us for an informative and engaging session that will help you take your reporting to the next level.Encore Making Paginated Reports More Accessible
A few tweaks to your paginated reports can make your reports usable for more people. Your design choices help or hinder your report consumers from accomplishing their data analysis goals. You can adopt accessible design habits to make reports usable for people with visual and cognitive disabilities with a few small tweaks to your normal report creation process. Join this session to discuss how to make reports with good color contrast that work better with screen readers. We'll also talk about how descriptive titles and explanatory text can improve accessibility and make reports easier to understand.Power BI and Power Automate doing what they do best
In this session we will look at how Power Automate can give Power BI write back options. Moving onto how Power BI can deliver transformed data to Power Automate. Continuing to look at how Power Automate can help deliver report in new ways from Teams messages to paginated reports. We look forward to having you attend the event!Encore Power BI, Excel and Paginated Reports – better together!
In today's data-driven world, it's no secret that effective reporting is essential for successful decision-making. However, not all users have the same reporting preferences. Some prefer Excel, others prefer Power BI, and some require printed versions of the data. The good news is that recent updates to Excel, Power BI, and Paginated Reports allow for more integration and flexibility in meeting these reporting needs. In this session, we will explore different ways to leverage the strengths of Excel, Power BI, and Paginated Reports to create powerful and insightful reporting solutions that cater to all users' needs. Our goal is to provide attendees with the knowledge and tools they need to meet the diverse reporting needs of their organizations and stakeholders. Join us for an informative and engaging session that will help you take your reporting to the next level.Johannesburg Fabric / Power BI User Group Meeting
Hi Everyone Please join us at 17h00 on the 27th of June 2024 for our next Fabric / Power BI User Group event. As per the routine/schedule, the event this month is online only, and the agenda is as follows: > BI News - Siya Zungu > MS Fabric News - Stefan Janse van Rensburg > BI Flash: Dynamic Subscriptions for Power BI Reports and Power BI Paginated Reports - Vusi Masimula For more information, and to RSVP, please use this Meetup link: https://www.meetup.com/biug-sa/events/297919987/ Cheers Sven
