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.
Features Microsoft has announced are going away for Power BI, grouped by the area they affect. The mirror of the roadmap: what to plan a migration off, not what to adopt. 1 still to take effect · 2 already retired.
The preview portal partners used to submit and certify Power Query SDK connectors for shipping in Power BI Desktop, the on-premises data gateway and Power Query Online was retired. Certification of custom data connectors runs through Microsoft directly now, not self-service submission.
Move to Go through Microsoft's partner connector certification process; the portal itself is gone.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗Power BI Q&A, the legacy natural-language querying experience, is being retired. The date has slipped from December 2026 to February 2027 to give tenants longer to find what depends on it. Anything built on a linguistic schema, and any Q&A visual sitting in a published report, needs a Copilot-based replacement before then.
Move to Copilot in Power BI
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗From October 30, 2026 you can no longer add new legacy Teams or legacy Outlook activities to pipelines. Existing instances can still be edited and run.
Move to Modern Microsoft Teams and Outlook 365 Email activities
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗