December 16, 2025 by Alex Powers 235,849 Views
As 2025 ends, we’re taking a moment to reflect on Microsoft Fabric’s second year in the market and the collective progress made alongside our community, customers, and partners. What began as a unified vision for data and AI has grown into a platform adopted by more than 28,000 organizations worldwide, anchored by OneLake and shaped …
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In October 2025, we introduced OneLake diagnostics—a powerful capability that helps teams “answer who accessed what, when, and how” across your Fabric Lakehouse environment. OneLake diagnostics streams JSON-based activity logs into a Lakehouse you choose, enabling rich analysis, governance, and compliance workflows. A powerful capability that helps teams “answer who accessed what, when, and how” …
What if generating embeddings in Eventhouse didn’t require an external endpoint, callout policies, throttling management, or per‑request costs? That’s exactly what slm_embeddings_fl() delivers: a new user-defined function (UDF) that generates text embeddings using local Small Language Models (SLMs) from within the Kusto Python sandbox, returning vectors that you can immediately use for semantic search, similarity …
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We want to update on a strategic evolution in how you can access and utilize security insights within Microsoft Fabric! The powerful reports you’ve relied on in the Microsoft Purview Hub are officially transitioning and being significantly enhanced within the new Admin Report in the Govern tab of the OneLake Catalog, as was announced at …
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Welcome to the December 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 Fabric. The Microsoft Fabric Community team has created the Fabric Influencers Spotlight to …
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The Spark job definition activity in Microsoft Fabric Data Factory pipelines now supports connection property, unlocking a more secure and production-ready way to run your SJDs. What’s New? With this update, you can configure Notebook activities to run as Service Principal (SPN) or Workspace Identity (WI). These authentication methods are our recommended approach for production …
