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Consultant KB for Microsoft Power BI: semantic models, DAX and modelling, Power Query and dataflows, reports and visuals, the service and workspaces, capacity and performance, embedding and integration, governance and security, ALM and deployment, and licensing, plus cross-cutting decision guides. Scoped to Power BI, with Microsoft Fabric covered where it touches Power BI directly. Implementation notes, configuration decisions and the gotchas that bite on real projects. Populated by the daily author agent from the Power BI release plans, docs repo and product blog, plus the author's own consultant notes.

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+ | 2026-09-16 | New: **ODBC to ADBC driver transition** (Power Query & Dataflows) — Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Dremio, Impala and Spark move from embedded ODBC to Apache Arrow ADBC drivers; Hive is deprecated outright. Tenant/workspace setting, per-connection `Implementation` pin, gateway refreshes stay on ODBC, service cutover late Q3/early Q4 2026 and drivers gone from Desktop and gateway spring 2027. |
  | 2026-08-21 | New: **OneLake Image and Map Files in Reports** (Reports & Visuals) — store image/shape-map files in a Fabric lakehouse and reference their OneLake URLs in visuals; loaded per viewer's Entra identity, so files stay authenticated. |
  | 2026-08-18 | New: Editing PBIP Files Externally (ALM & Deployment) — edit report/model files in VS Code and reload into Desktop; ⚠️ Preview. |
  | 2026-08-05 | New: Conditional Formatting for Chart Lines and Legends (Reports & Visuals). |
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  | Semantic Models | 7 |
  | DAX & Modelling | 7 |
- | Power Query & Dataflows | 6 |
+ | Power Query & Dataflows | 7 |
  | Reports & Visuals | 9 |
  | Service & Workspaces | 6 |
  | Capacity & Performance | 6 |
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  | ALM & Deployment | 7 |
  | Licensing | 5 |
  | Decision & Selection Guides | 6 |
- | **Total** | **72** |
+ | **Total** | **73** |
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+ | 2026-08-21 | New: **OneLake Image and Map Files in Reports** (Reports & Visuals) — store image/shape-map files in a Fabric lakehouse and reference their OneLake URLs in visuals; loaded per viewer's Entra identity, so files stay authenticated. |
  | 2026-08-18 | New: Editing PBIP Files Externally (ALM & Deployment) — edit report/model files in VS Code and reload into Desktop; ⚠️ Preview. |
  | 2026-08-05 | New: Conditional Formatting for Chart Lines and Legends (Reports & Visuals). |
  | 2026-07-22 | Initial backfill — 69 docs published across all eleven categories. |
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  | Semantic Models | 7 |
  | DAX & Modelling | 7 |
  | Power Query & Dataflows | 6 |
- | Reports & Visuals | 8 |
+ | Reports & Visuals | 9 |
  | Service & Workspaces | 6 |
  | Capacity & Performance | 6 |
  | Embedding & Integration | 6 |
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  | ALM & Deployment | 7 |
  | Licensing | 5 |
  | Decision & Selection Guides | 6 |
- | **Total** | **71** |
+ | **Total** | **72** |
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+ | 2026-08-18 | New: Editing PBIP Files Externally (ALM & Deployment) — edit report/model files in VS Code and reload into Desktop; ⚠️ Preview. |
  | 2026-08-05 | New: Conditional Formatting for Chart Lines and Legends (Reports & Visuals). |
  | 2026-07-22 | Initial backfill — 69 docs published across all eleven categories. |
  
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  | Capacity & Performance | 6 |
  | Embedding & Integration | 6 |
  | Governance & Security | 7 |
- | ALM & Deployment | 6 |
+ | ALM & Deployment | 7 |
  | Licensing | 5 |
  | Decision & Selection Guides | 6 |
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+ | 2026-08-05 | New: Conditional Formatting for Chart Lines and Legends (Reports & Visuals). |
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  ## By category
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  | Semantic Models | 7 |
  | DAX & Modelling | 7 |
  | Power Query & Dataflows | 6 |
- | Reports & Visuals | 7 |
+ | Reports & Visuals | 8 |
  | Service & Workspaces | 6 |
  | Capacity & Performance | 6 |
  | Embedding & Integration | 6 |
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  | ALM & Deployment | 6 |
  | Licensing | 5 |
  | Decision & Selection Guides | 6 |
- | **Total** | **69** |
+ | **Total** | **70** |
v1🤖 markdown-importlast monthmarkdown import
Initial version.