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Published docs in the Microsoft Dataverse KB: the data layer under Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform: data model, security model, business logic, APIs and integration, search and queries, analytics and Fabric, ALM, administration, governance and compliance, and Dataverse as an agent data platform, plus cross-cutting decision guides. The daily monitor task adds a row here when it publishes or updates a doc. Browse the live KB at https://365-almanac.app/kb/dataverse.
🆕 New & Updated
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | Updated File and image columns — developer-side image behaviour: set and delete with update, thumbnail on retrieve, download URL column, CanStoreFullImage, and the shared ProcessImageFailure error. |
| 2026-10-24 | Updated Link to Microsoft Fabric — the Fabric capacity no longer has to be in the same Azure geography or region as the environment. |
| 2026-10-24 | Updated AI columns, prompt columns and AI functions — bulk backfill of existing records, its two environment settings and job expiry. |
| 2026-10-17 | Updated Environments and types — Dataverse for Teams and unmanaged developer environment deprecations. |
| 2026-10-10 | Added Dataverse User Types: Regular, Application, Non-Interactive and Others — Dataverse user types — regular, agent (preview), application, non-interactive (seven-per-environment cap), unlicensed (preview), support and delegated admin placeholders, and what profile sync does and doesn't cover. |
| 2026-10-08 | Updated: Capacity and storage — storage overage lifecycle timings (Administration mode at 30 days, sign-in blocked at 90 days from first exceeding 100%), pay-as-you-go sandboxes exempt, and how borrowed capacity is counted in the 85% / 15%-remaining notifications. |
| 2026-09-27 | New: Filtered view record ownership (Public Preview) — Security Model; a fourth ownership type with no record owner at all, access granted via FetchXML record filters instead of who owns the row. New: Dataverse Ask APIs and semantic models (Public Preview) — AI & Agent Data Platform; the developer-facing natural-language query surface behind Work IQ's Dataverse grounding, 30 requests/user/org/minute, separate from the Web API. |
| 2026-09-18 | Updated: Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse — managed identity for storage doesn't replace the service application's permissions: for profiles connected to a Synapse workspace, app 7f15f9d9-cad0-44f1-bbba-d36650e07765 ("Export to data lake") still needs Synapse Administrator at workspace scope and Storage Blob Data Contributor on the storage account. |
| 2026-09-16 | Updated: Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse — deleted-record retention in the lake: in append only (and Delta Lake) output a delete is a soft isDeleted = True tombstone that Synapse Link hard-deletes after 30 days, so a lake used as the audit trail silently loses deleted history; long-term retention on the Dataverse table is the fix. Updated: Admin APIs and automation — Power Platform API known limitations: RBAC covers only a named subset of endpoints (all Power Pages, environment management except the two for User reads, governance except cross-tenant connection reports), and sovereign-cloud availability for lifecycle endpoints is scheduled for 1 December 2026. |
| 2026-09-15 | New: Plug-in Trace Log — Business Logic; the PluginTraceLog table end to end (Off/Exceptions/All setting, 10 KB MessageBlock truncation, 24-hour retention, 100 GB cut-off) including Microsoft's September 2026 change restricting read access to MessageBlock, Configuration and SecureConfiguration to System Administrator. Updated: Table relationships — added the lookup primary-name disclosure gotcha: anyone who can read the row holding a lookup sees the related record's primary name whether or not they can read that record. |
| 2026-09-10 | Updated: Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse — Delta Lake (Parquet) export deprecated: closed to new customers 15 Oct 2026, removed Dec 2027, replacement is Link to Fabric. Updated: Low-latency sync — SQL analytics endpoint metadata sync v2 (preview, new workspace connections only), CDF latency tradeoff, and unlink now fails while dependent Fabric artefacts exist. |
| 2026-08-30 | New: Dataverse SDK for Python (Public Preview) — APIs & Integration; Python package (PowerPlatform-Dataverse-Client) for direct Dataverse access with CRUD, native bulk operations, QueryBuilder, table metadata CUD and Pandas DataFrame results — no .NET required. |
| 2026-08-21 | New: Dataverse Plugin for AI Coding Agents (Public Preview) — AI & Agent Data Platform; open-source skill set that lets GitHub Copilot/Claude Code/Cursor/Codex drive the Dataverse CLI, MCP server, Python SDK, Power Platform CLI and Web API from natural-language prompts. |
| 2026-08-18 | New: Planning Latency for Link to Fabric — Analytics & Fabric; indicative P95 data-freshness reference by load pattern. |
| 2026-08-06 | New: Custom column visualizations for grids (Public Preview) — Data Model. |
| 2026-07-22 | Initial backfill — 70 docs published across all eleven categories. |
By category
| Category | Docs |
|---|---|
| Data Model | 9 |
| Security Model | 9 |
| Business Logic | 8 |
| APIs & Integration | 8 |
| Search & Queries | 5 |
| Analytics & Fabric | 6 |
| ALM & Solutions | 6 |
| Administration | 7 |
| Governance & Compliance | 6 |
| AI & Agent Data Platform | 7 |
| Decision & Selection Guides | 6 |
| Total | 77 |
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