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Announcing general availability of org apps in Power BI and Fabric, including one of the most requested capabilities: audiences. Figure: Org apps with audiences for Power BI and Fabric.   Org apps with audiences set you up to get the right reporting to the right people, in just the right experience. Curate and distribute reporting at scale across your organization—from leadership and management to frontline teams—while securely and efficiently building app experiences that help everyone find the data they need, understand what matters to them, and make better decisions from branded and customized experiences built for how they work. Why audiences matter to you Figure: One workspace app with audiences vs multiple org apps per workspace.   When we introduced audiences to workspace apps, many of you told us: audiences are great, but I need multiple apps per workspace. Then when we introduced org apps as items, you told us: multiple apps per workspace are great, but I need audienc...

Connectors and driver changes   For the following connectors, Power BI/Fabric will move away from the current embedded ODBC drivers and toward the replacement drivers (primarily ADBC). Databricks: Simba Spark ODBC Driver → Databricks ADBC Driver Dremio: Simba Drill ODBC Driver → FlightSQL ADBC Driver Google BigQuery: Simba Google BigQuery ODBC Driver → BigQuery ADBC Driver Hive: Simba Hive ODBC Driver → Deprecated Impala: Simba Impala ODBC Driver → HiveServer2 ADBC Driver Snowflake: Simba Snowflake ODBC Driver → Snowflake ADBC Driver Spark: Simba Spark ODBC Driver → HiveServer2 ADBC Driver   Who’s impacted You are impacted if you use any of the connectors in the previous list and meet one of the following conditions: You haven’t explicitly specified an implementation for the connection Your organization wants centralized control over whether ADBC or ODBC is used by default.   This default behavior is intended to apply anywhere a connection is created (e.g., semantic model...

Microsoft Build 2026 marks a major shift in how developers build data experiences with AI agents. Today we're announcing two capabilities that bring agentic analytics to the forefront: Agent Skills for Power BI , which let developers prompt an AI agent to build and refine semantic models and reports, and Fabric Apps for Semantic Models , which enable AI agents to build and deploy Fabric-native web apps on semantic models. Both capabilities will accelerate the time it takes to go from raw data to a polished analytics solution with just natural language prompts. Agent Skills for Power BI (Preview) In November 2025, we released our Power BI Modeling MCP , which allowed AI agents to interact with Power BI’s semantic layer, enabling massive productivity gains in semantic model authoring. Agent Skills for Power BI brings a true end-to-end agentic development workflow not just for Power BI semantic models but for Power BI reports too using Power BI Projects (PBIP). Instead of manually b...