Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

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Enabling broader adoption of XMLA-based tools and scenarios

Starting on June 9, 2025, all Power BI and Fabric capacity SKUs will support XMLA read/write operations by default. This change is intended to assist customers using XMLA-based tools to create, edit, and maintain semantic models, such as DAX Query View in the web, Live Editing in Power BI Desktop, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), …

Activator as an Orchestrator of the Fabric Event Driven flows

With Fabric Events general availability, the role of Activator expands from setting notifications and acting on your data in real time to becoming an orchestration centerpiece. Activator acts as a connecting tissue enabling complex event-driven and data-driven flows. Let’s look at a very common architecture we often see our customers implement: In this architecture we …

Task flows in Microsoft Fabric (Generally Available)

Task flows feature is now generally available! Task flows streamline the design of your data solutions and ensure consistency between design and development efforts. It also allows you to navigate items and manage your workspace more easily, even as it becomes more complex over time. Since its preview last May, we have received a great …

Authenticate to Fabric data connections using Azure Key Vault stored secrets (Preview)

Azure Key Vault support in Fabric Data connections is now in preview! With this capability, we are introducing a new concept called ‘Azure Key Vault references’ in Microsoft Fabric, using which, users can reuse their existing Azure key vault secrets for authentication to data source connections instead of copy-pasting passwords, slashing credential-management effort and audit risk. …

Announcing the winners of “Hack Together: The Microsoft Data + AI Kenya Hack”

We are excited to announce the winners of the winners of Hack Together: The Microsoft Data + AI Kenya Hack! About the Hackathon The HackTogether was an exciting opportunity to bring bold ideas to life by building Data & AI solutions using Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI Services. Organized exclusively for participants from Kenya, the …