Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

Updated Timeline: Eventhouse OneLake availability migration

The migration timeline will now start May 7th, instead of the original scheduled start of April 9th. As a reminder, we will be migrating the data you have enabled for OneLake Availability in Eventhouse. During this migration, we will be backfilling all of your data along with moving it to an area of OneLake that is designated … Continue reading “Updated Timeline: Eventhouse OneLake availability migration”

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”

Open Mirroring for SAP sources – dab and Simplement

Fabric Mirroring Database mirroring has been a hot topic in Microsoft Fabric since its introduction in 2024. It offers a user-friendly replication capability that allows you to connect to a source, select the tables you want to replicate, and mirror them into Fabric OneLake. The mirroring engine fetches an initial snapshot from the source and … Continue reading “Open Mirroring for SAP sources – dab and Simplement”

Microsoft Fabric January 2025 update

We’ve got a lot of exciting updates this month. To name a few, NotebookUtils session management utilities, Enhancing COPY INTO operations with Granular Permissions in Data Warehouse, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Fabric REST APIs. Keep reading to hear about everything we have in store for you this month. Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 After … Continue reading “Microsoft Fabric January 2025 update”

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”