Fabric Influencers Spotlight October 2025
Welcome to the October 2025 edition of the Fabric Influencers Spotlight, a recurring monthly post here to shine a bright light on the places on the internet where Microsoft MVPs & Fabric Super Users are doing some amazing work on all aspects of Microsoft Fabric.
The Microsoft Fabric Community team has created the Fabric Influencers Spotlight to highlight and amplify blog posts, videos, presentations, and other content related to Microsoft Fabric. We’ve cultivated submissions from members of Microsoft MVPs & Fabric Super Users from the Fabric community that cover the Fabric Platform, Data Engineering & Data Science in Fabric, Data Warehousing, Power BI, Real-Time Intelligence, Data Integration, Fabric Administration & Governance and Databases.
Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who utilize their deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services to bring together diverse platforms, products, and solutions, to solve real world problems, and to bring ‘leading edge’ content to the data community.
To learn about the Microsoft MVP Award and to find MVPs, visit the official website.
Fabric Super Users are the heroes of the Fabric Community. They contribute helpful answers, write informative blog posts, post data stories and are key contributors to the Fabric product via engagement with the product group.
To learn more about the Super User program, visit the official website.
Power BI
Parul Sagar, LinkedIn
Affiliation: Super User
Blog: Simplifying Reusable Logic in DAX with User-Defined Functions (UDFs)
As Power BI evolves within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem, the focus has shifted from building individual visuals to designing governed, reusable semantic models. DAX User Defined Functions (UDFs) are one of the most exciting additions, enabling this shift.
Ilgar Zarbaliyev, LinkedIn
Affiliation: MVP & Super User
Article: Unlocking the Power of DAX Query View: A Post-Vienna Reflection
This article reflects on Ilgar Zarbaliyev’s experience at the European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 in Vienna, highlighting key moments, community connections, and insights from the event. It introduces readers to the powerful DAX Query View in Power BI — a feature designed to explore, test, and analyze DAX queries in an interactive environment. The piece blends professional reflections with practical learning, inviting readers to join the growing Microsoft Fabric community and access session resources for hands-on exploration.
Marc Lelijveld, LinkedIn
Affiliation: MVP
Blog: Automating Power BI Semantic Model Security with Fabric Semantic Link
Why don’t we just script this security on our templated semantic models? In this blog I will share how you can deploy security configurations to semantic models and assign users to these roles using Fabric Notebooks with Semantic Link.
Data Engineering
Inturi Suparna Babu, LinkedIn
Affiliation: Super User
Blog: DP-600 vs DP-700: Which Microsoft Certification Fits You Best?
In this blog post, I’ll walk you through the key differences between Microsoft’s DP-600 and DP-700 certifications — helping you decide which path suits your skills, background, and career goals best.
Ignacio Barrau, LinkedIn
Affiliation: MVP
Blog: [Fabric] Entornos y librerías de código para tus notebooks
Desde sus inicios, Fabric, ha contado con capacidades varias para su código. Entre ellas, la instalación o delimitación de librerías o paquetes personalizados. Podían configurarse desde notebooks o por código. Sin embargo, todo eso fue cambiando hasta llegar a la versión definitiva que conocemos hoy.
En este artículo hablaremos de entornos o environments para conocer como trabajar en notebooks con librerías propias y que otras configuraciones contiene.
Comencemos como nos gusta hacer en LaDataWeb. Veamos la definición de libro, es decir, la que Microsoft dice de su componente:
Data Science
Jennifer Ratten, LinkedIn
Affiliation: Super User
Blog: Get Fabric Data Agents Running in Minutes – Fast, Easy, and For Everyone
Data Agents + Fast & Simple – No code, no drama, just pure BI magic. This user-friendly, step-by-step guide demonstrates how to get a Fabric data agent up and running quickly using a semantic model as the data source and having Copilot in Power BI do the heavy lifting. Sample files are included for an even faster jump-start.
This also kicks off a new series, A Friendly Guide to Power BI and Fabric AI (Beginner to Expert), so be on the lookout!
Sahir Maharaj, LinkedIn
Affiliation: Super User
Blog: Clustering with KMeans, DBSCAN, and UMAP for Data Science in Microsoft Fabric
In this edition, we will explore the art of uncovering hidden patterns in your data using KMeans and DBSCAN. By the time you finish reading, you’ll have a clear sense of how each algorithm thinks, how to decide which one fits your data, and how to interpret the clusters they create. You’ll observe how KMeans brings structure and precision, while DBSCAN adds flexibility and adaptability for messier, real-world data. We’ll also bring in UMAP, a powerful tool that turns complex, high-dimensional data into something you can actually understand.
Fabric Platform, Administrative & Governance
Aleksi Partanen, LinkedIn
Affiliation: MVP
YouTube video: Multi-Workspace Deployments in Microsoft Fabric: Item Autobinding Explained
This video explains how Microsoft Fabric item autobinding works across multiple workspaces in larger multi-workspace environment setups. It demonstrates how deployment pipelines automatically manage dependencies between workspaces. The video includes a practical demo with three environments and six workspaces to show autobinding in action from development to production.
Kevin Chant, LinkedIn
Affiliation: MVP & Super User
Blog: Git and workspace strategies for your Microsoft Fabric development process
In this blog, you’ll receive some advice about Git and workspace strategies for your Microsoft Fabric development process. To be more precise, advice about aligning with a DevOps way of working for with branches, Microsoft Fabric Git integration and Fabric workspaces when multiple developers need to work in isolation before updating what is seen as the ‘development branch’.
Real-Time Intelligence
John Kerski, LinkedIn
Affiliation: MVP
Blog: Making Your Power BI Teams More Analytic with Microsoft Fabric – Real-time Intelligence
If you’ve ever tried to analyze test results from multiple Power BI tools, you know the pain of different formats, inconsistent definitions, and no single source of truth.
That’s where Fabric’s Eventhouse comes in.
By applying the medallion architecture, we can store, transform, and combine all those results into gold tables for true analytics on your development processes.
Thanks for reading & we’ll see you next month!
That’s all for this month’s spotlight on the Microsoft Fabric Influencers. We wanted to extend our thanks to the MVPs and Super Users whose expertise continues to enrich the Fabric community. We anticipate the innovative ideas and valuable insights that will emerge in the coming months and invite everyone to stay engaged here on the Fabric Community Platform.
Together, we will continue to deliver knowledge and collaboration that empowers every member of our community to achieve more. Stay tuned!
