This month’s update brings exciting opportunities for learning and community engagement, including the upcoming Fabric Data Days and the return of FabCon in Atlanta next spring. Notably, Power BI is making strides in mapping capabilities by transitioni...

We are thrilled to announce the release of a new Fabric REST API for configuring connection bindings for semantic models. A connection binding defines what data connection a semantic model will use to connect to an underlying data source.

We have made Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.5 for our Azure Synapse Spark customers generally available for customers to start using it for their production workloads, while they get ready and prepare for migrating to Microsoft Fabric Spark. ...

Discover how Microsoft is transforming data connectivity in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric with a community-driven approach. Learn how you can influence the connector roadmap, submit ideas, vote on priorities, and help shape the future of analytics.

Microsoft has launched a native graph data management, analytics, and visualization service. Its horizontally scalable, native graph engine empowers enterprises of all sizes with a relationship‑first way to model and explore interwoven data.

The OPENROWSET function that can read JSONL format empowers you to easily read and ingest JSONL files – for example log files, social media streams, machine learning datasets, configuration files, and other semi-structured sources. With the versatile O...

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Fabric is a developer-focused framework that brings together Microsoft Fabric’s public APIs, item definitions, and best-practice guidance into a unified context layer designed for AI-assisted development. It runs lo...

Why Mission-Critical Features Matter In the era of AI and cloud-scale analytics, organizations need a data integration platform that is secure, resilient, and ready for the most demanding workloads. Fabric Data Factory is engineered to deliver just tha...

Copy job is the go-to solution in Microsoft Fabric Data Factory for simplified data movement. With native support for multiple delivery styles, including bulk copy, incremental copy, and change data capture (CDC) replication, Copy job offers the flexib...

Big news for Fabric users, managing workloads just got a lot easier! With the new Workspace-level assignment feature, workspace admins can now add additional workloads directly to their own workspaces—no more waiting on tenant or capacity-level setup. ...

Introducing the Secure tab in the OneLake catalog—your central place to understand and manage access across Fabric items. From a single view, you can workspace roles with the View users experience and inspect or modify role OneLake security roles with ...

A new AI capability in Microsoft Fabric’s Real-Time Intelligence (RTI) is available with a preview of anomaly detection. This marks the start of a journey to empower users with AI-driven, scalable, proactive real-time data experiences. Learn more about...

Microsoft Fabric provides industry leading data integration capabilities that are unique in the market. Fabric is built on OneLake, which provides data integration at the root, with shortcuts and mirroring that enable Zero-ETL approaches to data unific...

We’re pleased to announce the winners of the latest Microsoft Fabric Community Contests, including the Power BI DataViz World Champs, Fabric Notebooks for Power BI, and the Translytical Task Flows contest.

Key ISV Announcements Transforming the Future of Data with Microsoft Fabric The Engine of Innovation—ISVs & Microsoft Fabric Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) have long been the pulse driving technological advancement and industry-specific solutions ...

The Microsoft Fabric Migration Guide is now live! This comprehensive resource is designed to help you plan and execute your migration to Microsoft Fabric with confidence. Whether you’re just getting started or already deep into your migration journey, ...

Today, we are announcing the retirement of the Power BI integration within SharePoint lists and libraries. This change impacts customers who currently use the “Visualize the List” or “Visualize the Library” feature to create or access reports directly ...

Building on our earlier preview access, we are excited to announce the full preview of OneLake security, a significant milestone in our ongoing commitment to delivering a secure, scalable, and easy-to-manage data lake experience. OneLake security is no...

Introduction Welcome to the August 2025 edition of What’s New in Fabric Warehouse. As summer winds down, despite August being a slower month, our team continued to deliver meaningful updates. We shipped several new features focused on enhancing data in...

For years, organizations have aspired to build a culture where data isn’t just accessible—it’s woven into every decision. And now with generative AI, AI assistants are making it easier than ever for business users to explore data, quickly answer their ...

We’re excited to introduce Fabric RTI’s Schema Registry — a centralized way to discover, manage, and evolve data schemas in Fabric Eventstreams and beyond.

In healthcare, data security is not just a technical priority—it’s an ethical and legal imperative. From electronic health records (EHRs) to population health analytics and research data, healthcare organizations working with platforms like Microsoft F...

Welcome to the August 2025 edition of the Fabric Influencers Spotlight, a recurring monthly post here to shine a bright light on the places on the internet where Microsoft MVPs & Fabric Super Users are doing some amazing work on all aspects of Microsof...

Organizations often face challenges when trying to scale analytics across large volumes of data stored in centralized SQL databases. As business teams demand faster, more tailored insights, traditional reporting pipelines can become bottlenecks. By ado...

Introducing the Item History Page in Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics App (Preview) We’re thrilled to announce the Preview of the Item History page in the latest version of the Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics App. The Item History page provides a 30...

Here is the August 2025 release of the on-premises data gateway (version 3000.282).

We’ve made a major update to User Data Functions! This update addresses the most critical feedback we have received since the start of the preview: the testing and development experience of your functions. Important note: In order to use this feature, ...

Copy Job has become the go-to solution in Microsoft Fabric Data Factory for simplified data movement, whether you’re moving data across clouds, from on-premises systems, or between services. With native support for multiple delivery styles, including b...

Unlock the full potential of teamwork in Microsoft Fabric! Discover how a simple, effective Git branching strategy—paired with smart workspace design—can transform collaboration, streamline development, and empower your teams to deliver high-quality an...

AzCopy is a powerful and performant tool for copying data between Azure Storage and Microsoft OneLake, and is the preferred tool for large-scale data movement due to its ease of use and built-in performance optimizations. AzCopy now supports copying da...

Introduction Welcome to What’s New in Fabric Warehouse, where we’ll spotlight our work improving quality, delivering major performance enhancements, boosting developer productivity, and our continuous investments in security. Whether you’re migrating f...

If you have been following this blog post series then you should have a working Terraform config from the first two posts, plus a managed identity from the third post that has the correct authorizations as a workload identity for use in deployment pipe...

Overview Semantic models are evolving to work more seamlessly with Mirrored artifacts—giving you greater flexibility, control, and transparency when working with mirrored data. Why are we decoupling semantic models from Mirroring Artifacts? Historicall...

Join the Power BI Notebooks Competition this August to showcase your creativity and contribute to the community gallery.

Fast Copy in Dataflows Gen2 is a game-changer to enhance the performance and cost-efficiency of your Dataflows Gen2. By leveraging the same optimized backend as the Copy Activity in data pipelines, Fast Copy significantly reduces data processing time a...

We’re happy to announce the preview of JSON Lines (JSONL) support in the OPENROWSET(BULK) function for Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse and SQL endpoints for Lakehouses. The OPENROWSET(BULK) function allows you to query external data stored in the lake ...

Welcome to the July 2025 edition of the Fabric Influencers Spotlight, a recurring monthly post here to shine a bright light on the places on the internet where Microsoft MVPs & Fabric Super Users are doing some amazing work on all aspects of Microsoft ...

How Contoso uses MQTT sensors, public weather feeds and Fabric Real-Time Intelligence to monitor smart buildings. Jointly authored by Alicia Li and Arindam Chatterjee Why Real-Time Stream Processing Matters In the age of AI, as organizations embrace in...

Microsoft Fabric’s Warehouse and SQL Endpoint now support both Case Sensitive (CS) and Case Insensitive (CI) collations, providing users with powerful tools to ensure data consistency and flexibility. This blog delves into the updated collation configu...

Shortcut‑based AI transformations in Microsoft Fabric convert raw text files into governed Delta Lake tables within minutes, removing the need for complex data‑integration pipelines and significantly reducing time to insight. Why adopt AI transformatio...

Shortcut‑based AI transformations in Microsoft Fabric convert raw text files into governed Delta Lake tables within minutes, removing the need for complex data‑integration pipelines and significantly reducing time to insight. Why adopt AI transformatio...

In August 2025, Microsoft Fabric will introduce workspace access limits to improve service quality, reliability, and to encourage workspace access control hygiene. This limit will be permanent once it is rolled out – each Fabric & Power BI workspace wi...

In this blog post, we will describe how to train an ML model in Fabric Spark notebook, save it in Fabric’s models registry and use it for scoring new streaming data by Fabric Eventhouse via update policy in real time. We describe a typical workflow tha...

Effortlessly read Delta Lake tables using Apache Iceberg readers Microsoft Fabric is a unified, SaaS data and analytics platform designed for the era of AI. All workloads in Microsoft Fabric use Delta Lake as the standard, open-source table format. Wit...

Thinking of taking the DP-700 exam? Here’s how I passed it—and why it could change your career in data engineering with Microsoft Fabric.

This post is second in series that helps Partners and Customers plan Fabric Configuration for new and existing deployments. You can find the first post in this series here : https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-platform-Community-Blog/Micro...

If you’re diving into Microsoft Fabric, you’ve likely heard about its powerful capabilities for unified analytics. One of its standout features? Notebooks. Whether you’re coming from a data science, engineering, or BI background, notebooks provide a fl...

This blog draft gives an overview of updates to access and learn from report data via Copilot.

Shortcut transformations is a new capability in Microsoft Fabric that simplifies the process of converting raw files, starting with .CSV files, into Delta tables. This feature eliminates the need for traditional ETL pipelines, enabling users to transfo...

We’re excited to announce Surge Protection for background operations is now Generally Available (GA). Using surge protection, capacity admins can limit overuse by background operations in their capacities.