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Power BI Report Server Bug Causes Menus to Not Work

We recently upgraded to Power BI Report Server on premises.  We have a directory name "President's Office".  While still on SSRS there was no issue with the name of the directory.  After upgrading we received an error when clicking on the ellipsis in the upper right corner of the folder.  The underlying reports would run but we could not manage them.  The error persisted for all sub-folders and reports.  The error did not provide much in the way of details: An error has occurred. Something went wrong. Please try again later. I cracked open developer tools in Chrome to see what was happening when we clicked on the ellipsis.  When clicking on the ellipsis it made an API call which resulted in a 404 error. The API call looked like this: reports/api/v2.0/Folders(Path=%27/President's%20Office%27)/AllowedActions Look closely and you will notice the apostrophe in the directory name is not encoded.  This also explains why all of the sub-folders and repor