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Fabric and Power BI Bristol: Johnny Winter and Neil Rowlands — Thursday 15 October, in person https://www.meetup.com/fabricpowerbibristolusergroup/events/316856396/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsletter

meetup.comFabric and Power BI Bristol: Johnny Winter and Neil Rowlands — Thursday 15 October, in personWhen: **Thursday 15th October 2026** Time: arrive for **5:45pm** with talks starting from **6pm start** prompt. Location: **Ecosurety, 2nd Floor, 4 Colston Ave, Bristol BS1
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Devon and Cornwall Power BI: MCPs, Skills and Plugins with Cristi Prifti — Tuesday 13 October, online https://www.meetup.com/d-c_powerbi/events/315871528/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsletter

meetup.comDevon and Cornwall Power BI: MCPs, Skills and Plugins with Cristi Prifti — Tuesday 13 October, online**MCPS, Skills and Plugins** ... what are these? and why do they matter? AI assistants can already write DAX and explain your model, but the real shift is when they can ac
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Fabric and Power BI Manchester (PBIMCR) at Data Decoded: Rob Sewell and Duncan Boyne — Tuesday 13 October, in person https://www.meetup.com/pbimcr/events/315411620/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsletter

meetup.comFabric and Power BI Manchester (PBIMCR) at Data Decoded: Rob Sewell and Duncan Boyne — Tuesday 13 October, in person**Calling all Power BI & Fabric Data enthusiasts** We've been invited back to run a special User Group event at **Data Decoded 2026 conference** at **Manchester Central**
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#7 Planning Your Fabric Rollout: Pilot vs. Enterprise-Wide Adoption Strategies by Paul Turley https://sqlserverbi.blog/2026/10/06/7-planning-your-fabric-rollout-pilot-vs-enterprise-wide-adoption-strategies/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsletter

sqlserverbi.blog#7 Planning Your Fabric Rollout: Pilot vs. Enterprise-Wide Adoption Strategies by Paul TurleyPilot versus enterprise-wide is the wrong debate — the real question is which one your organization is actually ready for. Here’s how to start narrow, learn fast, and earn your way to scale w…
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Code Coverage for Semantic Models: Introducing pql-test code-coverage by @jkerski.bsky.social https://www.kerski.tech//code-coverage-for-semantic-models/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsletter

kerski.techCode Coverage for Semantic Models: Introducing pql-test code-coverage by @jkerski.bsky.socialSeveral years ago, I wrote a blog article introducing the concept of code coverage for semantic models: Part 8: Bringing DataOps to Power BI. With the state of Power BI technology at the time, the bridge was a little far and implementation was quite arduous.
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Where Writeback Belongs – Ep.569 by Mike Carlo & Tommy Puglia https://powerbi.tips/2026/10/06/where-writeback-belongs-ep-569/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsletter

powerbi.tipsWhere Writeback Belongs – Ep.569 by Mike Carlo & Tommy PugliaAn anonymous mailbag asks whether Power BI should let people act on a number without leaving the report. Tommy Puglia and Mike Carlo put writeback in Fabric apps, keep the report for consumption, and treat translytical task flows as the exception.
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Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026 by @jamesserra.bsky.social https://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/announcements-from-the-microsoft-fabric-community-conference-barcelona-2026?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsletter

sqlservercentral.comAnnouncements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026 by @jamesserra.bsky.socialMicrosoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon and SQLCon Barcelona 2026, with approximately 5,000 attendees at the conference. I’ve tried to make...
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From D365 Business Central to Power BI: Transform Your Sales Data into Insights by Soheil Bakhshi https://biinsight.com/from-d365-business-central-to-power-bi-transform-your-sales-data-into-insights/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsletter

biinsight.comFrom D365 Business Central to Power BI: Transform Your Sales Data into Insights by Soheil BakhshiAre you a Power BI developer who has suddenly been asked to build reports on top of Dynamics 365 Business Central sales data?
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How I Architected a Complete Reporting Solution on Fabric F2 by Gilbert Quevauvilliers https://www.fourmoo.com/2026/10/13/how-i-architected-a-complete-reporting-solution-on-fabric-f2/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsletter

fourmoo.comHow I Architected a Complete Reporting Solution on Fabric F2 by Gilbert QuevauvilliersIn this blog post, I want to show you how I architected a customer reporting solution using a single Microsoft Fabric F2 capacity and Power BI Embedded through Entelexos. The two core subscriptions total USD $362 per month. That covers the reserved Fabric capacity and the Entelexos Basic subscription. The reason I wanted to share this is to show that...
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Official icon sources for Microsoft Fabric architecture diagrams by Kevin Chant https://chantifiedlens.com/2026/10/12/official-icon-sources-for-microsoft-fabric-architecture-diagrams/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsletter

chantifiedlens.comOfficial icon sources for Microsoft Fabric architecture diagrams by Kevin ChantShows where to find official Microsoft Fabric architecture icon sources. Including related services such as Azure DevOps, Git and GitHub.
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Norfolk Power Platform User Group: Simon Owen and Emily Delva — Thursday 15 October, in person https://www.meetup.com/norfolk-power-platform-user-group/events/316514037/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsletter

meetup.comNorfolk Power Platform User Group: Simon Owen and Emily Delva — Thursday 15 October, in personJoin us on 15th October for another evening of learning, networking and all things Power Platform. Speakers - **Simon Owen** \- The Impact of AI: A Journey\, an Experimen
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Fabric and Power BI Bristol: Johnny Winter and Neil Rowlands — Thursday 15 October, in person https://www.meetup.com/fabricpowerbibristolusergroup/events/316856396/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsletter

meetup.comFabric and Power BI Bristol: Johnny Winter and Neil Rowlands — Thursday 15 October, in personWhen: **Thursday 15th October 2026** Time: arrive for **5:45pm** with talks starting from **6pm start** prompt. Location: **Ecosurety, 2nd Floor, 4 Colston Ave, Bristol BS1
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Devon and Cornwall Power BI: MCPs, Skills and Plugins with Cristi Prifti — Tuesday 13 October, online https://www.meetup.com/d-c_powerbi/events/315871528/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsletter

meetup.comDevon and Cornwall Power BI: MCPs, Skills and Plugins with Cristi Prifti — Tuesday 13 October, online**MCPS, Skills and Plugins** ... what are these? and why do they matter? AI assistants can already write DAX and explain your model, but the real shift is when they can ac
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Fabric and Power BI Manchester (PBIMCR) at Data Decoded: Rob Sewell and Duncan Boyne — Tuesday 13 October, in person https://www.meetup.com/pbimcr/events/315411620/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsletter

meetup.comFabric and Power BI Manchester (PBIMCR) at Data Decoded: Rob Sewell and Duncan Boyne — Tuesday 13 October, in person**Calling all Power BI & Fabric Data enthusiasts** We've been invited back to run a special User Group event at **Data Decoded 2026 conference** at **Manchester Central**
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Birmingham Power BI (#PBIBRUM): Synoptic Panel with Victor Rivas and data projects with Jerome Wittersheim — Wednesday 7 October, in person https://www.meetup.com/birmingham-power-bi-meet-up-group/events/315758719/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsletter

meetup.comBirmingham Power BI (#PBIBRUM): Synoptic Panel with Victor Rivas and data projects with Jerome Wittersheim — Wednesday 7 October, in person#PBIBRUM October meetup with Victor Rivas & Jerome Wittersheim Join us at the Robert Walters offices for the #PBIBRUM October meetup! Agenda: **17:45** \- Doors open **
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Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where? by @jamesserra.bsky.social https://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/prep-data-for-ai-vs-fabric-data-agent-instructions-what-goes-where?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsletter

sqlservercentral.comPrep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where? by @jamesserra.bsky.socialMaking Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series on making data AI-ready. Part 1 covered what AI-ready data means, Part 2 looked at...
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Programmatically Control Copilot access for semantic models by Sandeep Pawar https://fabric.guru/programmatically-control-copilot-access-for-semantic-models?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsletter

fabric.guruProgrammatically Control Copilot access for semantic models by Sandeep PawarIn the flood of announcements at FabCon Barcelona, you may have missed this feature our customers and users have been asking for - controlling Copilot/AI access to semantic models. Previously, if you