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Fabric November 2025 Feature Summary

November 18, 2025 by Adam Saxton 78,277 Views

The November 2025 Fabric release introduces several major updates, including the general availability of SQL database, Cosmos DB, and enhanced mirroring support for key data sources such as SQL Server, Cosmos DB, and PostgreSQL. This month also brings new AI-driven features like Copilot sidecar chat tools and real-time data exploration, as well as crucial platform …

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Run Notebooks in Pipelines with Service Principal or Workspace Identity

Notebook activity in Microsoft Fabric Data Factory pipelines now supports connection property—unlocking a more secure and production-ready way to run your notebooks. 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 environments, ensuring: Why it …

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Unlocking Enterprise AI: Seamless Integration of OneLake Files in Microsoft Foundry IQ

Microsoft Fabric’s OneLake is redefining how organizations manage and leverage their data. Now, with native integration into Microsoft Foundry IQ, teams can unlock the full potential of their unstructured and semi-structured files without the hassle of data duplication or complex pipelines. OneLake brings together structured tables and unstructured files such as documents, images, logs, transcripts …

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Announcing Staging for Mirroring for Google BigQuery (Preview)

Introducing staging support for Mirroring for Google BigQuery (Preview), a major enhancement that dramatically improves the speed and efficiency of initial data replication from Google BigQuery into Microsoft Fabric. Why Staging Matters Previously, initial replication of large datasets from BigQuery into Fabric could be time-consuming. With staging enabled, organizations are now seeing performance improvements of …

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Turning everyday documents from SharePoint and OneDrive into analytics ready data with OneLake shortcuts

We’re making it easier than ever to bring the files your business lives in every day, such as Word documents, Excel workbooks, PowerPoint decks and PDF files, directly into your analytics in Microsoft OneLake. With OneDrive and SharePoint shortcuts, you can now reference your existing files in Microsoft 365 as if they were part of …

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Bridging the Gap: Automate Warehouse & SQL Endpoint Deployment in Microsoft Fabric

Deployment Challenges While Solutions Are in Development Microsoft Fabric has revolutionized data analytics with its unified platform, but deploying complex architectures with cross-dependencies remains a significant challenge for organizations. The good news is that the Microsoft Fabric team is actively working on native warehouse deployment capabilities with DacFx, cross-item dependency resolution, and cross-warehouse reference support. …

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