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Power BI Trends 2025: AI Assist, Mobile Layouts & Semantic Model Advances

Microsoft Power BI continues to evolve with feature-rich updates aimed at improving analytics, user experience, and reporting flexibility. The latest updates in 2025 are geared toward making data visualization more accessible, intelligent, and mobile-responsive.

AI Assist Enhancements

Power BI now supports ad hoc calculations in read mode using Copilot. Users can ask questions and generate calculations directly from reports without entering edit mode. This expands the use of AI across all user levels.

Copilot is also now available on mobile devices, making insights accessible on the go. This helps business users interact with data and get answers from dashboards using natural language, no matter where they are.

Mobile Layout Auto-Creation

Creating mobile-friendly dashboards is now easier. Power BI automatically generates mobile layouts for desktop reports, which can be previewed and adjusted before publishing. This ensures reports are effective across both desktop and mobile interfaces without requiring extra effort from developers.

Semantic Model Enhancements

Developers now have the ability to edit semantic models live in Direct Lake mode. Changes sync seamlessly between Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service, supporting smoother collaboration across teams.

TMDL (Text Model Definition Language) view is also now available, allowing developers to compare and manage changes with better version control. These updates offer improved precision and flexibility for modeling complex data relationships.

New Visual Features

Power BI has expanded its visual options, including support for table headers with groupings, new chart types like Lollipop and Graph PRO, and updated mapping visuals. These provide better data presentation while allowing deeper interaction with insights.

Interface updates like Dark Mode and an improved metrics hub make navigating dashboards easier, faster, and more visually comfortable.

Expanded Data Connectivity

Power BI now offers broader data connectivity, including improved integration with platforms like Oracle, Vertica, and Snowflake. This makes it easier to centralize insights from multiple sources and reduces the need for complex data engineering.

Collaboration and Workflow Integration

Power BI continues to introduce features that enable interaction beyond just data consumption. With translytical flows and writeback support, users can now take actions directly from dashboards — such as approvals or updating entries — which enhances workflow automation and real-time decision-making.

These features position Power BI as more than just a reporting tool; it becomes a critical part of daily operations.

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Power BI integration with Azure, Dynamics 365, and third-party platforms

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VBeyond Digital ensures businesses get more from their data by implementing meaningful dashboards, training users, and supporting long-term optimization.

Final Thoughts

The 2025 updates to Power BI mark a shift toward smarter, mobile-ready, and action-oriented analytics. AI-assisted features, auto-generated mobile layouts, semantic modeling control, and real-time collaboration tools help users work more efficiently with data.

Organizations looking to adopt or upgrade their analytics should explore these new features and consider working with trusted partners like VBeyond Digital to implement them successfully.

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Modify individual cells without write permissions in Power BI

Modify individual cells without write permissions in Power BI | #PowerBI #DataAnalytics

In this video I am show you how to write back to a source you dont own. Links to mentioned sources:

Create an index with DAX:

Create a rowid with dax:

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What’s new in Office 365 Groups for April 2017

With over 85-million monthly Office 365 users, there’s no such thing as a typical customer. That’s why we built Office to embrace the diverse needs of the modern workplace by giving teams their choice of tools. Even within a single organization, different teams often have different demands for the productivity tools they use every day. What’s unique about Office 365 is the ability to deliver tools that meet these diverse needs—all on a single, manageable platform.

Supporting these teams is Office 365 Groups, a membership service leveraged by millions of users, which helps teams collaborate in their app of choice, including: Outlook, SharePoint, Skype for Business, Planner, Yammer, OneNote and Microsoft Teams. Office 365 Groups helps to structure, format and store information in a way that is accessible across different applications, but remains secure and easily manageable.

Enhancements to help admins manage groups

A key benefit of Office 365 Groups is that any user in your organization can create a group and start collaborating with others in seconds. Self-service creation is great for users, but we know IT admins need to be able to easily manage groups, gain insight into their use, control their directories and ensure compliance of group data. Today, we are announcing new enhancements for administering Office 365 Groups to support these needs:

Restore deleted groups—If you deleted an Office 365 group, it’s now retained by default for a period of 30 days. Within that period, you can restore the group and its associated apps and data via a new PowerShell cmdlet.

Retention policies��Manage group content produced by setting up retention policies to keep what you want and get rid of what you don’t need. Admins can now create Office 365 Groups retention policies that apply to the group’s shared inbox and files in one step using the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center.

Label management—With labels, you can classify Office 365 Groups emails and documents across your organization for governance, and enforce retention rules based on that classification.

This adds to our broad set of group management tools recently rolled out to Office 365 customers:

Guest access—Guest access in Office 365 Groups enables you and your team to collaborate with people from outside your organization by granting them access to group conversations, files, calendar invitations and the group notebook.

Upgrade Distribution Groups to Office 365 Groups—The Exchange Admin Center now offers an option to upgrade eligible Distribution Groups to Office 365 Groups with one click.

Data classification*—You can create a customizable data classification system for Office 365 Groups, such as unclassified, corporate confidential or top secret.

Usage guidelines*—You can define usage guidelines for Office 365 Groups—to educate your users about best practices that help keep their groups effective, and educate them on internal content policies.

Azure AD Connect*— Enables group writeback to your Active Directory to support on-premises Exchange mailboxes. See “Configure Office 365 Groups with on-premises Exchange” for more information.

Dynamic membership*—Admins can define groups with rule-based memberships using the Azure Management Portal or via PowerShell. Group membership is usually updated within minutes as users’ properties change. This allows easy management of larger groups or the creation of groups that always reflect the organization’s structure.

Hidden membership—If you want group membership to be confidential (for example, if the members are students), you can hide the Office 365 group members from users who aren’t members of the group.

Creation policies—There may be some people in your organization that you don’t want to be able to create new groups. There are several techniques for managing creation permissions in your directory.

Office 365 Groups activity report—These reports includes group properties, messages received and group mailboxes storage over time. Note you can also leverage the SharePoint site usage report to track groups’ file storage.

A look at upcoming features

Because Office 365 is a subscription service, we’re able to continue improving the admin capabilities based on customer feedback. Here’s a look at some of the enhancements on our Roadmap for the next three months:

Expiry policy*—Soon, you will be able to set a policy that automatically deletes a group and all its associated apps after a specific period. The group owner(s) will receive an email notification prior to the expiration date, and they will be able to extend the expiration date if the group is still in use. Once the expiration date is reached, the group will be soft deleted for 30 days (and hence can be restored by an administrator if needed).

Azure AD naming policy*—Admins will be able to configure a policy for appending text to the beginning or end of a group’s name and email address no matter where the group is created, such as Outlook, Planner, Power BI, etc. Admins will be able to configure a list of specific blocked words that can’t be used in group names and rely on the native list of thousands of blocked words to keep their directories clean.

Default classification and classification description—Will enable admins to set default Office 365 Groups classification at the tenant level using PowerShell cmdlets. In addition, admins will be able to provide a description for each of the defined classifications.

Classification is available when creating or modifying a group across apps—Selecting a group classification will be available when creating or editing a group across the following Office 365 applications: Outlook, SharePoint, Planner, Yammer and StaffHub.

Learn more

See this recent presentation from Ignite Australia to learn more about Office 365 Groups, and join our Ask Us Anything session on the Microsoft Tech Community on April 13, 2017 at 9 a.m. PDT (UTC-7) to discuss these recent administration updates.

Get started with the Office 365 Groups online resources today.

—Christophe Fiessinger, @cfiessinger, senior program manager for the Office 365 Groups team

*Azure Active Directory Premium is required.

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