Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

Unlocking Geospatial Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric with Esri’s ArcGIS Maps Workload (Preview)

Introducing ArcGIS Maps for Fabric ArcGIS Maps for Microsoft Fabric is now available, bringing Esri’s industry-leading geospatial analytics along with dynamic, interactive mapping and visualization capabilities directly into Fabric. The new ArcGIS Maps workload empowers data professionals to visualize, explore, analyze, share location-based insights and integrate Esri’s authoritative data assets with their ArcGIS online service … Continue reading “Unlocking Geospatial Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric with Esri’s ArcGIS Maps Workload (Preview)”

Mirroring: SQL Server, PostgresSQL, Cosmos DB, Updates to Snowflake Mirroring and the Mirroring Ecosystem (Generally Available)

Data silos slow innovation. Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric eliminates those barriers by bringing operational data into OneLake without complex ETL pipelines. The result, near real-time AI and BI insights, unified governance, and a single source of truth across your organization – all at no cost!  What’s Generally Available and why it matters:  SQL Server 2016-2022 & SQL Server 2025 (Generally Available)  Native mirroring for SQL Server … Continue reading “Mirroring: SQL Server, PostgresSQL, Cosmos DB, Updates to Snowflake Mirroring and the Mirroring Ecosystem (Generally Available)”

Fabric November 2025 Feature Summary

The November 2025 Fabric release introduces several major updates, including the general availability of SQL database, Cosmos DB, and enhanced mirroring support for key data sources such as SQL Server, Cosmos DB, and PostgreSQL. This month also brings new AI-driven features like Copilot sidecar chat tools and real-time data exploration, as well as crucial platform … Continue reading “Fabric November 2025 Feature Summary”

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”