Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

What’s new with OneLake shortcuts

Microsoft Fabric shortcuts enable organizations to unify their data across various domains and clouds by creating a single virtual data lake. These shortcuts act as symbolic links to data in different storage locations, simplifying access and reducing the need for multiple copies. OneLake serves as the central hub for all analytics data. By using OneLake … Continue reading “What’s new with OneLake shortcuts”

Creating a shortcut to a VPC-protected Google Cloud Storage bucket

This guide will cover how to create a OneLake shortcut to a VPC-protected Google Cloud Storage (GCS) bucket. Why use the on-premises-data gateway? Today, organizations are protecting data by leveraging network security capabilities like virtual networks, firewalls and virtual protected clouds (VPC). To access data securely and to provide a bridge between protected environments and … Continue reading “Creating a shortcut to a VPC-protected Google Cloud Storage bucket”

Creating a shortcut to a VPC-protected Amazon S3 bucket

This guide will show you how to create a OneLake shortcut to a VPC-protected Amazon S3 bucket. Why use the On-premises-data gateway? Today, organizations are protecting data by leveraging network security capabilities like virtual networks, firewalls and virtual protected clouds (VPC). To access data securely and to provide a bridge between protected environments and Microsoft … Continue reading “Creating a shortcut to a VPC-protected Amazon S3 bucket”

Fast copy in Dataflows Gen2

Dataflows help with ingesting and transforming data. With the introduction of dataflow scale-out with the SQL DW compute, we are able to transform your data at scale. However, to do this at scale, your data needs to be ingested first. With the introduction of Fast copy, you can ingest terabytes of data with the easy … Continue reading “Fast copy in Dataflows Gen2”

Browse Azure resources with Get Data

With the new ‘browse Azure’ functionality in Get Data, you can easily browse all your Azure resources and automatically connect to them, without going through manually setting up a connection, saving you a lot of time. Using the regular path in Get Data to create a new connection, you always need to fill in your … Continue reading “Browse Azure resources with Get Data”