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Welcome to the April 2026 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 Fabric. The Microsoft Fabric Community team…
Nested folders support in shortcut transformations (Generally Available)
Nested folders, shortcut transformations, subfolder processing, OneLake, shortcuts, Lakehouse Data lakes rarely come in flat structures. In practice, data is organized across multi-level folder hierarchies, partitioned by date, region, source system, or business unit. Previously, shortcut…
Resource instance rules for OneLake in Microsoft Fabric (Preview)
As enterprises adopt OneLake as their unified data lake for analytics, securing how external services access data in OneLake becomes increasingly important—especially in environments where public internet access must be tightly controlled. Today, we’re introducing resource instance rules for…
Cross-workspace logging for MLflow in Microsoft Fabric: Build MLOps workflows with confidence (Generally Available)
Machine learning teams need more than a great model — they need a reliable way to move that model from experimentation to production. Cross-workspace logging for MLflow in Microsoft Fabric, is a capability that enables you to build end-to-end MLOps workflows using the standard MLflow APIs you…
Stream SQL Change Events to Microsoft Fabric Eventstream with Change Event Streaming for Real-Time Analytics
Coauthor: Nikola Zagorac In today’s data-driven world, the ability to capture and act on data changes in real time is a competitive necessity. From financial services processing millions of transactions per second to e-commerce platforms tracking inventory and customer behavior, real-time data…
Outbound access protection for Data Factory (Generally Available)
Co-author: Abhishek Narain Workspace outbound access protection (OAP) is widely accessible for Data Factory workloads—including Pipelines, Copy Job, and Dataflows—as well as for Mirrored Databases such as Mirrored SQL Database and Mirrored Snowflake. Key benefits Enhanced outbound security: By…
Customer Managed Keys (CMK) for Eventhouse (Preview)
Empowering customers with enhanced security and control. This milestone marks a significant step forward in empowering our customers to take control of their data security and compliance needs within the Eventhouse platform. With CMK, you can manage your own encryption keys, providing an added…
Agentic Fabric: How MCP is turning your data platform into an AI-native operating system
Something fundamental is changing in how developers interact with data platforms. Not a feature update, not a UI refresh, but a shift in the interface itself.
Evolving Agentic Applications on Microsoft Fabric: From Automated Deployment to Integrating Data Agents
In our previous post, Operationalizing Agentic Applications with Microsoft Fabric, we focused on a core challenge teams encounter once an agentic application moves beyond a proof of concept: operational reality. Specifically, how do you observe, govern, evaluate, and analyze what agents are doing…
Orchestrate dbt jobs activity in your Fabric pipelines (Preview)
Coordinating dbt runs with upstream ingestion and downstream consumption often requires complex solutions and different tools. You can now add a dbt job activity (Preview) directly to your Fabric pipelines. This lets you orchestrate dbt transformations alongside other pipeline activities, so you…
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Highlights from FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Where databases and Fabric come together
From technical sessions to hallway conversations, FabCon and SQLCon 2026 showcased the momentum behind the Fabric and SQL ecosystems. The post Highlights from FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Where databases and Fabric come together appeared first on Microsoft Fabric Blog.
FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single data platform
We're bring attendees together to share real experiences and solve challenges side-by-side. Only together can we move into meaningful results. The post FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single data platform appeared first on Microsoft Fabric Blog.
Advancing agentic AI with Microsoft databases across a unified data estate
Built on a consistent Microsoft SQL foundation from on premises to the cloud, Azure SQL brings AI capabilities directly into your database experience. The post Advancing agentic AI with Microsoft databases across a unified data estate appeared first on Microsoft Fabric Blog.
Fabric March 2026 Feature Summary
Welcome to the Fabric March 2026 Feature Summary and welcome to FabCon! As we kick off FabCon, this update captures the momentum we re seeing across the Fabric platform and the conversations happening with customers and partners right now. March brings a wide range of enhancements across…
Eventstream connector: MongoDB CDC
Planned General availability Date: 2026-09-30 The MongoDB CDC connector for Eventstream captures database changes from any MongoDB deployment, including MongoDB Atlas and self-managed instances on other cloud providers. These change events are streamed into Eventstream for real-time processing and…
Workspace Private Link for Eventstream's Select Sources & Destinations
Planned General availability Date: 2026-09-30 Private Link enables secure, private connectivity between your virtual network and Microsoft Fabric, eliminating exposure to the public internet. With Eventstream's integration with Workspace Private Link, you gain granular access control at the…
Fabric Web: Streamlined Git and Deployment Pipeline Support with DacFx
Planned Public preview Date: 2026-05-02 DacFx onboarding in the Fabric Web editor enables seamless Git integration and supports deployment pipelines for Fabric Warehouse. With DacFx, developers can reliably manage schema changes, version control database projects, and execute incremental,…
Real-Time hub left-navigation consolidation for Data Sources
Shipped General availability Date: 2026-06-30 To improve clarity and task completion in Real Time hub, we're streamlining the left navigation. Users have reported confusion due to multiple overlapping entry points, making it difficult to locate the right actions for their real-time data workflows.…
Resource Links - Link PBI Reports
Shipped Public preview Date: 2026-04-11 Resource Links let you attach resources to the entity types they describe, so insights live alongside the data model that powers them. Starting with Power BI reports, when someone explores an entity in your ontology, they can immediately see the relevant…
Inbound network protection to OneLake with resource instance rules
Shipped Public preview Date: 2026-03-20 This feature offers a simple and secure way to restrict OneLake access to only your application's Azure resources, while blocking all other public access. It works by configuring resource instance rules specific to your designated Azure resource.
Item Soft-Delete and Recovery - Workspace recycle bin in UI
Shipped Public preview Date: 2026-03-16 Item soft-delete and recovery offer a secure and efficient way to manage deleted items. When an item is deleted, it is moved to workspace recycle bin and retained for a defined retention period. During this retention period, users can restore items or…
Scalar user-defined functions (UDFs)
Planned General availability Date: 2026-09-30 We're expanding scalar user-defined functions with new capabilities, including INLINE = AUTO, improved error messaging, support for special built-in functions, and CONTINUE/BREAK statements in **computation**-based UDFs.
Fabric OneLake catalog in Excel Get Data
Planned Public preview Date: 2026-06-30 The OneLake catalog integration in Excel as part of modern Get Data unlocks seamless connectivity to Fabric data, empowering every business user to discover and analyze organizational content directly from Excel. This powerful capability simplifies data…
Scalar user-defined functions (UDFs) - Complex control flows in computation-based UDFs
Planned Public preview Date: 2026-06-30 We're expanding the capabilities of scalar user-defined functions. This update unlocks new scenarios for **computation**-based UDFs, including support for while loops, multiple return statements, and complex control flows. Computation-based scalar UDFs can…