Deprecation of Power BI Integration within SharePoint Lists and Libraries

Today, we are announcing the retirement of the Power BI integration within SharePoint lists and libraries. This change impacts customers who currently use the “Visualize the List” or “Visualize the Library” feature to create or access reports directly from SharePoint.

This blog post provides details about the deprecation timeline and recommended alternatives to continue working with SharePoint list data in Power BI.

Deprecation Timeline

Recommended alternatives

You can continue to explore and analyse SharePoint list data in Power BI through the following approaches:

1. Export to Power BI directly from SharePoint list. 

You can quickly create a semantic model in the Power BI service directly from a SharePoint list.  Learn more: Create a semantic model from a SharePoint List - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

Once the semantic model is ready, you can explore your data with just a few clicks using Auto-create report, offering a similar experience to "Visualize the List" or "Visualize the Library".

To learn more about how to use autogenerated "quick" reports in Power BI, check out Interact with autogenerated "quick" reports in the Power BI service - Power BI | Microsoft Learn 

2. Create a report on a SharePoint List in Power BI Desktop. If you need advanced modelling or data transformation, you can connect to the SharePoint list from Power BI Desktop.

You can find more information about how to create a report on a SharePoint list in Power BI Desktop in Create a report on a SharePoint List in Power BI Desktop - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

Important notice and call to action

Starting December 11, 2025, all reports previously created using the “Visualize the List” or “Visualize the Library” features will become permanently unavailable.

To avoid data loss, we strongly recommend that users recreate any critical reports using the alternative methods outlined above before this date.