Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

Two Years in: How Fabric Redefines the Modernization Path for Synapse Users

Two years ago, we introduced Microsoft Fabric to Azure Synapse users as a bold new direction for analytics—one that promised unification, simplicity, scale. Today, that promise has matured into a complete platform that’s not just ready for enterprises, it’s built for them. To be very clear: Synapse continues to be supported. We will fix bugs, … Continue reading “Two Years in: How Fabric Redefines the Modernization Path for Synapse Users”

Creator Improvements in the Data Agent

We’re introducing a set of new enhancements for Data Agent creators — designed to make it easier to debug, improve, and express your agent’s logic. Whether you’re tuning example queries, refining instructions, or validating performance, these updates make it faster to iterate and deliver high-quality experiences to your users. New Debugging Tools View referenced example … Continue reading “Creator Improvements in the Data Agent”

ArcGIS GeoAnalytics for Microsoft Fabric Spark (Generally Available)

Additional authors – Madhu Bhowal, Ashit Gosalia, Aniket Adnaik, Kevin Cheung, Sarah Battersby, Michael Park Esri is recognized as the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, location intelligence, and mapping, primarily through its flagship software, ArcGIS. Esri empowers businesses, governments, and communities to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges through spatial analysis. … Continue reading “ArcGIS GeoAnalytics for Microsoft Fabric Spark (Generally Available)”

Securely Accessing External and On-Premises Data Sources with Fabric Data Engineering Workloads

Managed Private Endpoints support for connecting to Private Link Services is now available in Microsoft Fabric (Public REST APIs). This has been one of the top requests from our customers and the community: the ability to securely connect Fabric Spark compute to on-premises and network-isolated data sources using the option to allowlist Fully Qualified Domain … Continue reading “Securely Accessing External and On-Premises Data Sources with Fabric Data Engineering Workloads”

How Spark Supports OneLake Security with Row and Column Level Policies

Recently, we announced a significant milestone: public support for Row and Column Level Security within OneLake. This universal security framework applies consistently across all data engines, regardless of how data is accessed. Traditionally, Spark does not provide granular security features and assumes unrestricted access to the required datasets for query execution. To address this limitation, … Continue reading “How Spark Supports OneLake Security with Row and Column Level Policies”