Power BI Weekly

Issue #345 - 17th February 2026

A pretty quiet week this week. Only one official blog which comes from the Fabric side-of-things, which is a detailed walkthrough of how to Enrich Power BI reports with machine learning in Microsoft Fabric. In that post, Ruixin shows how you can connect to data in your semantic model using Semantic Link, perform data exploration using notebooks, create a model using Fabric ML and native MLflow experience, enable real-time scoring and feed these results back into another semantic model. Interesting stuff! On the community front, Mike Carlo and Tommy Puglia have spoken about Central BI & Workspace Strategies in Ep. 501 of the Explicit Measures podcast, a topic they've discussed before but one worthwhile revisiting with the additional architectures introduced by Microsoft Fabric. Moving on - those of you with a keen eye will have noticed the Fabric Workspace Settings Update: "License Type" Renamed to "Workspace Type" highlighted here by Nicky van Vroenhoven, whereby the Fabric/Power BI teams endeavour to disambiguate licensing concerns with the type of workspace you create with some simple terminology and dialogue design updates. I like this seemingly-trivial update, and hope that it reduces confusion for teams in the future. Finally this week, Chris Webb has gone into detail about Measuring Power BI Report Page Load Times, providing a Power Query script to plug into your Performance Analyzer exports in order to gain a more representative understanding on how long report interactions take for your end users.