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Feature deprecations
Copilot may be able to assist with this (depending on your license and other variables), though I've found it's better to ask direct strategy questions (with the add-on listed below) rather than general questions (such as "what's being deprecated...."). It tends to miss stuff in the later.
I recently told my team members to make sure to include in their research prompts:
| "Do not include recommendations that have been deprecated in the last 18 months or are set to be deprecated in the future." |
This is crucial because there is a lot of deprecated features that aren't consistently listed as deprecated yet in some of the microsoft documentation. It sent one of our junior people (and subsequently me when she asked me to turn on a feature in the admin portal that no longer existed) down a rabbit hole. She had been working on a specific strategy with PBI (with the metric hub) only to find out she had to start completely over. She had been looking for strategies related to measures best practices and it brought her to a recommendation of metric hub (which was deprecated last year, but all the MS pages have not been updated yet). The add-on for "deprecation" (and possibly my persona as a data architect) gave me a fuller answer and I've put it in as a rule now for my M365 Copilot.