There are multiple ways you can connect AI to Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. You could use MCP servers, you could use Fabric Skills, but there’s also another way: Fabric CLI, the command line interface. It’s not used as much as the other methods, but it’s quite powerful. In this post, I’ll first show you Read more about Fabric CLI Explained: Install, Use, and Connect It to GitHub Copilot[…]
PBIX isn’t going away, but the code behind it is finally becoming something you can version, script, and hand to an AI agent without things blowing up. In this episode of Fabric Insider, I sit down with Rui Romano, Product Manager on the Power BI team within Fabric, the person behind PBIP, PBIR, and TMDL, Read more about PBIP, PBIR, and Making Power BI AI-Addressable: A Conversation with Rui Romano (Fabric Insider Ep. 14)[…]
With the appearance of AI tools, LLMs, MCP servers, and skills, everyone these days is interested in what tool can do what. I’ve already explained the Power BI Modeling MCP server and Fabric Skills in previous videos. In this one, I’ll talk about the Fabric Core MCP server, an MCP server that gives you the Read more about Fabric Core MCP Server: Scan and Configure OneLake Security with AI[…]
DAX UDFs just went GA, there’s a new REST API for running DAX queries at scale, and a network security feature most people haven’t even heard of yet is quietly changing how enterprises govern their semantic models. In this episode of Fabric Insider, I sit down with Kay Unkroth, Program Manager on the Power BI Read more about DAX UDFs, Arrow REST API, and Outbound Access Protection: A Conversation with Kay Unkroth (Fabric Insider Ep. 13)[…]
If you’ve set up row level security in Power BI before, you know the usual drill: open the semantic model, add a role, write a DAX filter. But once your data lives inside a Microsoft Fabric OneLake structure, there’s a better way to do this. You can implement it directly in OneLake instead, so that Read more about OneLake Security: Setting Up Row Level Security From Lakehouse to Report[…]
Can you teach Claude, or any LLM, to follow your standards and your guidelines, so that when it connects to a Power BI model, when it wants to build a semantic model or a report, it does it exactly as you do, following all the instructions that you would normally provide? Yes, it is possible. Read more about Teach Claude Your Power BI Standards, Custom Skills for the Power BI Modeling MCP Server[…]
I have written and recorded about Rayfin before, what it is, how the Data App template works, and the cost story that makes it genuinely significant. But this conversation goes much deeper. I sat down with Sachin Patney, who leads Fabric App Development at Microsoft, and by extension the team that builds Rayfin, for a Read more about Fabric Apps & Rayfin Deep Dive: A Conversation with Sachin Patney | Fabric Insider Ep. 11[…]
AI can perform a lot of interesting tasks these days. It can check your email. It can draft an email response. And it can do many actions within the Power BI environment — including creating a complete Power BI report entirely from a prompt window, without touching anything inside Power BI Desktop. This is possible Read more about No-Code Power BI Report Authoring — GitHub Copilot + Fabric Skills + Power BI Desktop Bridge[…]
You can build an application whose frontend is TypeScript and ReactJS, and whose backend is a Power BI semantic model — meaning you get a fully interactive, visualized report inside your application without it being a Power BI report at all. Project Rayfin makes this possible. And it is going to change the way we Read more about Rayfin Data App — The Future of Power BI Reporting[…]
Everyone is talking about MCP Servers. But most people still cannot clearly explain what one actually is, why it matters for Fabric, or how it differs from the APIs and skills they already use. In this episode of Fabric Insider, I sat down with Hasan Abo-Shally — Product Manager for Fabric MCP Servers and CLI Read more about Fabric MCP Servers, CLI & AI Agents — A Conversation with Hasan Abo-Shally | Fabric Insider Ep. 8[…]