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I took the new DP-700 exam, released just hours ago in beta, and I’m here to share my experience along with some tips to help you prepare.

Do you often have to draw up diagrams of data flows or data architectures and would you like to use Microsoft Fabric icons in your diagrams? Then this post is for you! I always found it hard to find the right icons I needed, so I’ve put them all on this single page for easy access, both as PNG and SVG.

This article is about how to read and use bullet charts when comparing actuals to a target in Power BI, and the different options you have available to make

AI is transforming data warehousing, making complex analytics more accessible and efficient. With tools like Copilot for Data Warehouse and AI Skill, Microsoft Fabric offers two powerful, complementary resources that serve both data developers and business users. This blog explores how these tools differ, when to use each, and how they can work together to … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/data-warehouse-copilot-ai-skill/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Data Warehouse: Copilot & AI Skill”</span></a>

You can use Power BI Desktop to live edit Direct Lake semantic models, improving your data modeling experience and allowing export to Power BI Project (PBIP) for professional development workflows.

Explore the DAX Parser app using PyDAX to parse DAX expressions. Try the demo built with minimal setup on Replit

Microsoft is excited to announce a new set of capabilities that enable you to build autonomous agents. Learn more.

Already, 60 percent of the Fortune 500 are using Microsoft 365 Copilot to accelerate business results and empower their teams. With Copilot supporting sales associates, Lumen Technologies projects $50 million dollars in savings annually. Honeywell(1) equates productivity gains to adding 187 full-time employees and Finastra is reducing creative production time from seven months to seven...

Find out what's new in Dynamics 365 (including Sales, Service, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Human Resources, Business Central, and Commerce apps) and Power Platform (including Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents)

Microsoft launches 2024 release wave 2 for Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, and role-based Microsoft Copilot offerings. Learn more.

Power Apps announces ability to co-create a solution plan with Copilot in Power Apps and improved intelligent features for data input and management.

Introducing the new ERD-view data experience that streamlines the management of complex data models with Copilot assistance.

Data workspace, the ERD-view data experience with Copilot assistance is now generally available in 9 languages from within solutions and ready to create model-driven apps.

Managed private endpoints allow Fabric experiences to securely access data sources without exposing them to the public network or requiring complex network configurations. We announced General Availability for Managed Private Endpoint in Fabric in May of this year. Learn more here: Announcing General Availability of Fabric Private Links, Trusted Workspace Access, and Managed Private Endpoints. … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/apis-for-managed-private-endpoint-are-now-available/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “APIs for Managed Private Endpoint are now available”</span></a>

We’re thrilled to announce that Fabric Runtime 1.3 has officially moved from Public Preview to General Availability (GA). This is a major upgrade to our Apache Spark-based big data execution engine, which powers both data engineering and data science workflows. Fabric Runtime 1.3 is now fully integrated into the Fabric platform, ensuring a smooth and … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/fabric-runtime-1-3-is-generally-available-upgrade-your-data-engineering-and-science-workloads-to-harness-the-latest-innovations-and-performance-enhancements/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Fabric Runtime 1.3 is Generally Available! Upgrade your data engineering and science workloads to harness the latest innovations and performance enhancements”</span></a>

Introduction: We are excited to announce a significant enhancement to the Tenant Setting Delegation feature in Microsoft Fabric. Tenant setting delegation has existed in some form since the public preview launch of Fabric, primarily allowing delegation of workload controls to capacity admins. We are now introducing the delegation of export settings to workspaces via domain. … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-enhanced-tenant-setting-delegation-for-export-controls-in-microsoft-fabric/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Announcing the Enhanced Tenant Setting Delegation for Export Controls in Microsoft Fabric”</span></a>

Welcome to the October 2024 Update! Here are a few, select highlights of the many we have for Fabric this month. API for GraphQL support for Service Principal Names (SPNs). Introducing a powerful new feature in Lakehouses: Sorting, Filtering, and Searching capabilities. An addition to KQL Queryset that will revolutionize the way you interact with … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/fabric-october-2024-monthly-update/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Fabric October 2024 Monthly Update”</span></a>

We have a lot of exciting updates to share with you this month. Quick measure suggestions with Copilot to be replaced with Microsoft Fabric Copilot, we have an update with Azure Map – Data Bound Reference Layers, and a preview of New List Slicer. There’s a lot more to discover, so read on to see all we have for you this month.

We’re thrilled to announce that the Native Execution Engine is now available at no additional cost, unlocking next-level performance and efficiency for your workloads. What’s New?  The Native Execution Engine now supports Fabric Runtime 1.3, which includes Apache Spark 3.5 and Delta Lake 3.2. This upgrade enhances Microsoft Fabric’s Data Engineering and Data Science workflows, … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/native-execution-engine-available-at-no-additional-cost/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Native Execution Engine available at no additional cost!”</span></a>

Learn how to inject descriptions in your Power BI semantic models directly from your Power Query M scripts.

The Share capability for Fabric AI Skill is now in public preview. This feature enables AI Skill creators to share their AI Skill with colleagues, allowing them to consume the AI Skill and gain valuable insights from the data. How Sharing WorksOnce you have created and validated the effectiveness of your AI Skill, you can … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-public-preview-of-the-share-feature-for-fabric-ai-skill/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Announcing Public Preview of the “Share” Feature for Fabric AI Skill”</span></a>

— Simon Späti 🏔️ (@sspaeti)

— Simon Späti 🏔️ (@sspaeti)

Learn about Direct Lake storage mode in Microsoft Fabric and when you should use it.

A new way to authenticate and authorize your Fabric applications. You can now use service principal to access Fabric APIs. Service principal is a security identity that you can create in Entra and assign permissions to it in Entra and other Microsoft services, such as Microsoft Fabric.  With service principal you can automate your Fabric processes … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-service-principal-support-for-fabric-apis/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Announcing Service Principal support for Fabric APIs “</span></a>

In this article, I explain several use-cases for semantic-link-labs with reports, which involves programmatic modifications to report metadata to streamline certain report management tasks. This article explains how to do this with standard reports; future articles will elaborate about using the met

In this article, I introduce semantic-link-labs, a library based upon semantic-link that you can use in Microsoft Fabric notebooks to help you build, use, manage, and audit not only semantic models, but also reports and other items or parts of Fabric.

Learn about tags in Microsoft Fabric.