Power BI customers may experience failures when connecting to Excel workbooks in September 2026 Desktop release and Power BI Service…

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ResolvedListed for 20 h 34 min

First posted
on the Fabric support page
Ended
· marked resolved
Affects
Power BI
Edited
Not since we first saw it
Source
Microsoft Fabric support · checked 1 min ago

In short

Microsoft reported degraded service affecting Power BI, first posted on the Fabric support page at 15:55 UTC on 18 Sep. Microsoft marked it resolved at 12:30 UTC on 19 Sep, 20 h 34 min after it was first posted.

Microsoft says

Microsoft's latest update, , in short excerpts.

Power BI customers may experience failures when connecting to Excel workbooks in September 2026 Desktop release and Power BI Service, with a message saying, “DataFormat.Error”.

Microsoft,

Read the full update on Microsoft's status page

Timeline

Times in UTC, Microsoft's own where it gives them.

  1. 18 Sep

    MicrosoftFirst public post (version 1)

  2. 19 Sep+20 h 35 min

    MicrosoftResolved

What Microsoft changed

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  1. First version we captured ·

    As first seen: Resolved · 1 service
    Status
    Resolved
    Services
    Power BI

    Seen by us · Microsoft's page

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