If you manage Power BI at scale, you’ve probably wished for a single button you could press to stop all report refreshes at once. The reality is that there isn’t a universal one-click UI button in Power BI Desktop or the service to pause all refreshes. The practical, scalable solution? Pause the datasets that feed your reports. When a dataset’s refresh is paused, all reports that rely on that dataset stop refreshing too. You can get almost the same experience as a one-click solution by automating the pause across your target workspaces using REST API, PowerShell, or a small Flow/App.

Power BI Service provides built-in options to schedule daily and weekly dataset refreshes. However, there is no native option for monthly refresh. This limitation often becomes a challenge when business requirements demand a refresh on a specific day of every month. In this blog, I’ll walk you through a practical and reliable workaround to schedule a monthly refresh for a Power BI dataset using Power Automate. The steps are explained in detail and are easy to follow, even if you are new to Power Automate.