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Amazon Redshift V2 Connector for Microsoft Data Factory

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Microsoft is updating our Amazon Redshift connector to use the new Amazon Redshift ODBC 2.x driver. What’s new and why upgrade Microsoft and Amazon Redshift have been collaborating to provide our shared customers with an industry-leading, improved security, connectivity experience. The new driver will ensure compatibility, stability, security, and support for your data connectivity. This improvement aligns with Microsoft’s continued commitment to enhancing and providing secure data connectivity solutions for customers, enabling the mitigation of data connectivity threats. To support this initiative, existing connector s within Data Factory are transitioning to the Amazon Redshift ODBC 2.x driver for all Redshift connector s; the new connector is rolling out automatically across regions. This improvement will benefit connectivity between Redshift and various Microsoft products, ranging from Fabric Copyjob, Fabric Copy pipeline, and Dataflows Gen2 to Semantic models, Power BI Desk...
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GitHub integration icon is greyed out or disabled in your Power BI/Microsoft Fabric workspace

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GitHub integration icon is greyed out or disabled in your Power BI/Microsoft Fabric workspace   Log into the Power BI Admin Portal . Navigate to Tenant settings Go to Git settings (or Integration settings ). "Users can synchronize workspace items with GitHub repositories" is toggled to Enabled .    
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Power BI’s next chapter: The evolution of business intelligence

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More than a decade ago, I watched Power BI change the way users work, analyze and take action on their data. Since then, I have had the privilege of seeing it grow alongside our customers—from a tool for building reports into a platform used by millions of people to understand their businesses and make decisions every day. Now, Power BI is entering its next chapter. Introducing the next generation of report development We’re introducing a new app building experience in Power BI Desktop, powered by apps in Fabric , that enables users to create data applications using natural language. Starting from a trusted semantic model, users can generate, preview, edit, and publish purpose-built applications to Microsoft Fabric. These applications can accept inputs, write back data, preserve shared state, and support operational workflows, helping users move from insight to action.  This experience will be available for Power BI Desktop users in the coming months. Importantly, this experience i...
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Power BI September 2026 Feature Summary

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Welcome to the September 2026 Power BI Feature Summary! As the Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, data, and analytics community gathers in Barcelona for the European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference, this month is packed with news. From new Copilot and AI experiences to reporting, modeling, data connectivity, developer enhancements, and mobile updates, we're sharing the latest innovations designed to help you build, analyze, and act on your data more effectively. Whether you're joining us in person or following along from afar, this roundup is your guide to everything new across Power BI this month.  Copilot and AI   Power BI Agentic Experiences (Generally Available) Agentic development in Power BI is real, and it is already delivering value: whether you are starting from scratch with greenfield projects or building upon existing solutions in brownfield scenarios, BI developers can delegate the work to an agent, review the result, and refine it rather than starting from sc...
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