Power BI Weekly

Issue #335 - 25th November 2025

A dainty edition this week, but there are some great bits of content. Starting with the announcements: it was shared in last week's feature summary, but the New Card visual in reports is now Generally Available with plenty of improvements over the "old" visual. Zoe Douglas has written an impact FAQ on the new card visual's transition from preview to GA which is worth scanning. Another highlight from last week's summary was the Image Visual Enhancements for Report Creators, for which we've now been given this slightly deeper-dive and walkthrough of some of the new functionality. Finally, we've been told about the GA of the TMDL Visual Studio Code Extension, and we now have a preview of Standalone Copilot in Power BI mobile apps: Chat with your data anytime anywhere.

On the community front this week, Marco Russo has cross-compared Model-dependent and model-independent user-defined functions in DAX and provided some useful suggestions regarding naming conventions of UDFs and parameters, Ed Hansberry has described how to Bind A Power BI Thin Report To A Local Model, and, if you're a bit lost with all the MCP Server talk over the last few weeks, then Eugene Meidinger has written a nice article about The Power BI modeling MCP server in plain English.