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Private ADLS Gen2 access made easy with OneLake Shortcuts: a step-by-step guide

Microsoft Fabric provides the capability to streamline data access through OneLake Shortcuts. OneLake Shortcuts can significantly reduce data sprawl, enhances data interoperability and accessibility, promotes self-service without the need for ETL/ELT processes, and can improve Power BI semantic model performance with Direct Lake mode. A common question from our customers, particularly those in regulated industries, … Continue reading “Private ADLS Gen2 access made easy with OneLake Shortcuts: a step-by-step guide”

Introducing Power BI Embedded with Direct Lake Mode

Update (March 2025): Power BI Embedded with Direct Lake Mode is now generally available—fully supported for production use, backed by Microsoft’s SLA, and built to meet the security, compliance, and reliability standards our customers expect. We’re committed to continually enriching this offering to support new scenarios and overcome existing limitations. As we step into 2025, … Continue reading “Introducing Power BI Embedded with Direct Lake Mode”

Store and access your Iceberg data in OneLake using Snowflake and shortcuts

Microsoft Fabric is a unified, SaaS data and analytics platform designed for the era of AI. All workloads in Microsoft Fabric use Delta Lake as the standard, open-source table format. With Microsoft OneLake, Fabric’s unified SaaS data lake, customers can unify their data estate across multiple cloud and on-prem systems. This past May, we announced … Continue reading “Store and access your Iceberg data in OneLake using Snowflake and shortcuts”

Use OneLake shortcuts to access data across capacities: Even when the producing capacity is paused!

Shortcuts in Microsoft OneLake allow you to unify your data across domains and clouds by creating a single virtual data lake for your entire enterprise. With shortcuts, data can be reused multiple times, making it simple to consolidate data, without data movement, data duplication or changing ownership of the data. The consumption of data via … Continue reading “Use OneLake shortcuts to access data across capacities: Even when the producing capacity is paused!”

Optimizing Spark Compute for Medallion Architectures in Microsoft Fabric

Guidance to Maximizing Productivity and Efficiency for your Data Engineering Workloads Data engineering teams often grapple with the complexities of planning and configuring compute resources for their data platforms. This is especially true when working with large-scale, complex datasets and demanding downstream SLAs. A one-size-fits-all approach is rarely effective, as different data layers and datasets … Continue reading “Optimizing Spark Compute for Medallion Architectures in Microsoft Fabric”