Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

Bringing Customer-Managed Keys to Fabric Warehouse and SQL Analytics Endpoint

With this release, customers gain greater control and assurance over the encryption of their most critical analytical workloads. The Value of Customer-Managed Keys Fabric already ensures that your data is encrypted at rest using Microsoft-managed keys. But for many organizations—especially in regulated industries—encryption alone isn’t enough. They need the ability to control and manage the … Continue reading “Bringing Customer-Managed Keys to Fabric Warehouse and SQL Analytics Endpoint”

Extending Outbound Access Protection to Fabric Warehouse and SQL Analytics Endpoint

With the release of Outbound Access Protection (OAP) for Fabric workspaces, customers gained a powerful safeguard: the ability to strictly control where outbound connections can be established. Meaning data loads and queries across the workspace are limited to trusted destinations, reducing risk and strengthening governance. Now, Fabric Warehouse (Preview) and SQL Analytics Endpoint (GA) are … Continue reading “Extending Outbound Access Protection to Fabric Warehouse and SQL Analytics Endpoint”

Introducing Fabric MCP (Preview)

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Fabric is a developer-focused framework that brings together Microsoft Fabric’s public APIs, item definitions, and best-practice guidance into a unified context layer designed for AI-assisted development. It runs locally on your machine, giving AI agents the context they need to generate code and author items without accessing your environment—keeping … Continue reading “Introducing Fabric MCP (Preview)”

Fabric CLI: open source, AI-ready, and more powerful

The Fabric CLI is now open source—marking a major milestone in its evolution from a fast, intuitive, and scriptable interface for Microsoft Fabric into a community-driven platform for automation and exploration. Whether used interactively for ad-hoc operations or non-interactively in CI/CD pipelines, the CLI empowers developers to work efficiently and flexibly. With version 1.1.0, it … Continue reading “Fabric CLI: open source, AI-ready, and more powerful”

Outbound Access Protection for Spark (Generally Available)

Outbound Access Protection (OAP) is designed to help restrict outbound connectivity from a Fabric workspace to help prevent data exfiltration.  With OAP for Spark, Organizations can govern outbound connections from their Spark workloads in Fabric workspaces to external destinations and other Fabric workspaces within the same tenant providing organizations with granular controls to protect against data exfiltration.   To learn more about Workspace OAP, refer to the Introducing Workspace Outbound Access … Continue reading “Outbound Access Protection for Spark (Generally Available)”