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We are excited to announce that we will be removing the SKU requirement to use Copilot and AI capabilities in Microsoft Fabric. This means that by the end of April, customers on F2 and above will have access to Copilot, Fabric data agents, and more. Whether you’re an analyst, a data scientist, or an executive, … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/copilot-and-ai-capabilities-now-accessible-to-all-paid-skus-in-microsoft-fabric/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Copilot and AI Capabilities will be accessible to all paid SKUs in Microsoft Fabric “</span></a>

The Microsoft Fabric Community Conference returns to Las Vegas this week—bigger and better than ever. Learn more.

With the exciting release of Microsoft Fabric and the Fabric capacity products, we announced last May we are consolidating purchase options and retiring the Microsoft Power BI Premium per capacity products.

This month, we’re thrilled to bring you a host of new features and improvements designed to enhance your data analysis and visualization experience. We’ve made significant strides in performance and usability, ensuring that Power BI continues to be a powerful tool for your data needs.

Transform data storytelling with data point annotations added to Power BI visuals in PowerPoint. The new Annotations feature enables you to communicate insights with greater efficacy and enhance the engagement and informativeness of your presentation. By adding data point annotations to visuals in your slides, you can provide contextual explanations or highlights attached to the relevant data points, which improves communication and understanding of the data being presented.

We are excited to introduce one-click experiences that make it easier than ever to start using Fabric notebooks and semantic link to analyze your semantic models on the web! With pre-configured notebooks, you can effortlessly run Best practice analyzer and Memory analyzer to improve design, performance, and memory optimization of your semantic models. Additionally, explore and submit your notebook creations in the Power BI Community notebooks gallery to share notebooks that enhance your Power BI data analysis and reporting with the rest of the Power BI community.

Database mirroring is a powerful feature in Microsoft Fabric, enabling seamless data replication and high availability for critical workloads (learn more about mirroring). However, connecting to mirrored databases behind a firewall requires the right integration approach. Database Mirroring now supports firewall connectivity for Azure SQL Database, with Snowflake and Azure SQL Managed Instance coming soon, ensuring … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/supporting-database-mirroring-sources-behind-a-firewall/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Supporting Database Mirroring sources behind a firewall”</span></a>

Open Mirroring: Mirroring is one of the easiest ways to get data into Fabric, it creates a copy of your data in OneLake and keeps it up to date; no ETL required. Open Mirroring empowers everyone to create their own Mirroring Source using the publicly available API that allows you to replicate data from anywhere. … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/open-mirroring-ui-enhancements-and-csv-support-to-help-you-get-started-today/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Open Mirroring UI enhancements and CSV support to help you get started today”</span></a>

Spring 2025 Round up: Performance, Developer Experience, and Data Management! Co-author:  Idris Motiwala This week, at the 2025 Fabric Conference in Las Vegas, we are unveiling a series of features for the SQL database in Fabric, including: performance enhancements, streamlined developer workflows, and improved data pipeline management. Here are the high-level features you can look … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/whats-new-for-sql-database-in-fabric/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “What’s new for SQL database in Fabric?”</span></a>

Unlocking the full potential of Microsoft Fabric with Terraform Provider Terraform Provider for Microsoft Fabric is now generally available (GA)! The first version of the Terraform Provider for Fabric was released six months ago, enabling engineers to automate key aspects of their Fabric Data Platform. Since then, adoption has grown significantly, now even more customers … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/terraform-provider-for-microsoft-fabric-now-generally-available/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Terraform Provider for Microsoft Fabric (Generally Available)”</span></a>

Copy Job is now generally available, bringing you a simpler, faster, and more intuitive way to move data! Whether you’re handling batch transfers or need the efficiency of incremental data movement, Copy Job gives you the flexibility and reliability to get the job done.  Since it’s preview last September, we’ve received incredible feedback from you. … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/simplify-your-data-ingestion-with-copy-job-general-availability-announcement/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Simplify Your Data Ingestion with Copy Job (Generally Available)”</span></a>

Managing data warehouse changes and automating deployments is now simpler than ever with the integration of DacFx with Git and Deployment Pipelines for Fabric Warehouse. This integration enables seamless export and import of your data warehouses, efficient schema change management, and deployment through Git-connected workflows. Whether you’re collaborating with a team using tools like VS … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/simplify-your-warehouse-alm-with-dacfx-integration-in-git-and-deployment-pipelines-for-fabric-warehouse/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Simplify your Warehouse ALM with DacFx integration in Git and Deployment pipelines for Fabric Warehouse”</span></a>

We are excited to announce that the Get Data experience, along with the OneLake catalog, is now integrated into Excel for Windows (Preview). Like OneDrive, OneLake is a single, unified, logical data lake for your whole organization analytics data. This makes it crucial to have a streamlined method for loading OneLake data into Excel, enabling … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/easily-load-fabric-onelake-data-into-excel-onelake-catalog-and-modern-get-data-are-integrated-into-excel-for-windows-preview/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Easily load Fabric OneLake data into Excel — OneLake catalog and Get Data are integrated into Excel for Windows (Preview)”</span></a>

Real-time data is crucial for enterprises to stay competitive, enabling instant decision-making, enhanced customer experiences, and operational efficiency. It helps detect fraud, optimize supply chains, and personalize interactions. By leveraging continuous data streams, businesses can unlock new opportunities, improve resilience, and drive smarter automation in a data-driven world. What are Fabric Event Streams and Solace … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-solace-pubsub-connector-seamlessly-connect-fabric-eventstream-with-solace-pubsub-preview/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “New Solace PubSub+ Connector: seamlessly connect Fabric Eventstream with Solace PubSub+ (Preview)”</span></a>

Microsoft Fabric is a unified, secure, and user-friendly data platform equipped with features necessary for developing enterprise-grade applications with minimal or no coding required. Last year, the platform was enhanced by introducing SQL Database in Fabric, facilitating AI application development within Microsoft Fabric. In a previous blog post, we discussed how to build a chatbot … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/ai-ready-apps-build-rag-data-pipeline-from-azure-blob-storage-to-sql-database-in-microsoft-fabric-within-minutes/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “AI Ready Apps: build RAG Data pipeline from Azure Blob Storage to SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric within minutes”</span></a>

Mirroring is a powerful feature in Microsoft Fabric, enabling you to seamlessly reflect your existing data estate continuously from any database or data warehouse into OneLake in Fabric. Once Mirroring starts the replication process, the mirrored data is automatically kept up to date at near real-time in Fabric OneLake. With your data estates landed into … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/whats-new-with-mirroring-in-microsoft-fabric/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Mirroring in Fabric – What’s new”</span></a>

Prerequisites Before proceeding, ensure you have the necessary tools installed and configured. For more details, refer to the official installation guide: Install Azure CLI on Windows. Install Azur…

Enterprise reporting plays a pivotal role in regular operations, enabling organizations to track performance metrics and communicate effectively with both internal teams and external stakeholders. Accurate and timely reporting is critical for driving decisions that positively impact business outcomes. Throughout this eBook, we will explore how to leverage these capabilities with real-world examples. You will learn how to create recurring schedules with flexible frequency options, broadcast reports to different user groups, and apply custom filters and bookmarks to tailor content for each recipient. Additionally, you will learn how to export high-resolution PDFs, include executive scorecards within emails, and schedule reports with complex datasets containing hundreds of charts and tables.

IntroductionOverviewRequirementsKey FeaturesWhy Use This Notebook?Getting StartedConclusion Introduction Another role of the Azure Data Insights & Analytics team is building and maintaining the…

It’s been almost a year since we announced the external data sharing in preview at Fabric Conference 2024, and later that year it was made generally available at Ignite 2024. We’ve listened to customer feedback and have continued to improve the functionality of external data sharing. Many new feature enhancements have been delivered since the … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/external-data-sharing-enhancements-out-now/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “External data sharing enhancements out now”</span></a>

With AI functions, you can harness the power of Fabric’s native large-language model endpoint for seamless summarization, classification, text generation, and much more—all with a single line of code.

Check out the latest updates for Power Apps; Code View, Power Fx Functions, Environment Group control over AI settings, and Visualize with Copilot! As well as a great set of learning and doc updates.

Visual calculations are useful for performing calculations specific to a visual. Conditional formatting is a great example of this concept. In this article,

This blog post shows how to use a Python Notebook in Microsoft Fabric, which consumes significantly less capacity units, as well as getting all the Fabric Items.

You can use analytics to help your company cut costs, improve processes, and boost productivity.

What can cause more heart palpitations than a line chart that shows a sudden drop-off? Well, quite a few things… …but if you are like me and you’ve been given a report with a continuous line chart that shows a sudden drop in an important measure such as customer through-put, you might find yourself in… Continue reading Quick Tip – Showing incomplete months

Setting up OLS in Power BI requires an external tool. Not anymore! With the new TMDL view, you can configure and manage the OLS directly in Power BI Desktop!

There are many ways to write data into Lakehouse, even using Notebooks.

Disclaimer: This article serves as a foundational guide to understanding the basics of architecting Microsoft Fabric. While it provides insights into key considerations, it is not an exhaustive blueprint. The […]