Getting data is the starting point of almost every Power BI workflow. It’s where users connect to their data, explore what’s available, and begin shaping it for analysis. As a joint effort between the Data Integration and Power BI teams, we are introducing the Preview of the new Power Query Get Data experience in Power BI Desktop —a completely redesigned way to help you discover and connect to your data faster. Why we built a new Get Data experience? Over time, the number of connectors and data sources in Power BI has grown significantly. While this brings flexibility, it also introduces friction—especially when users are trying to quickly find the right data source or understand how to get started. At the same time, we’ve been evolving Power Query across Fabric experiences. This created an opportunity to rethink the Get Data flow end-to-end and align experiences across Desktop, Fabric, and beyond. The result is a modernized experience built on three key principles: Faster discove...
Outbound Access Protection (OAP) is a workspace-level network security and governance feature that blocks outbound traffic from a workspace by default and lets you allow only the destinations you explicitly trust. With this preview, you can now extend OAP to semantic models. Power BI reports aren't part of this preview yet; report support is coming in a separate announcement soon. Outbound data movement from semantic models Semantic model connections can cross workspace boundaries and can pull data from cloud and on-premises sources, including destinations that fall outside your organization's data boundary. Composite semantic models (models combining tables from multiple sources) can also send data from one source to another, when pushing filter values to a table in DirectQuery mode, as depicted in the diagram example. The relationship between Table A and Table B might have been created unintentionally. The query does not have to return meaningful results. The point is that va...