Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

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”

Capacity usage enabled date for Test capability in User Data Functions

User Data Functions is an item that allows you to create fully managed Python functions to run on Fabric. You can use this item to embed your business logic in your Fabric data architectures across all the different integrations, such as Fabric data sources, Power BI reports, Pipelines, Notebooks, and more. The use of the … Continue reading “Capacity usage enabled date for Test capability in User Data Functions”

From Files to Delta Tables—Parquet & JSON data ingestion simplified with Shortcut Transformations

Picture this: A data engineer at a global enterprise starts the day with a familiar challenge – ‘Why does ingesting Parquet and JSON files always feel like a battle?’. Data engineers are dealing with millions of records stored in compressed Parquet files and deeply nested JSON logs. Every schema change means hours of debugging. Every … Continue reading “From Files to Delta Tables—Parquet & JSON data ingestion simplified with Shortcut Transformations”

Customer-managed keys for Fabric workspaces (Generally Available) 

Protect your data at rest with keys you own and control  By default, Fabric encrypts all data at rest using Microsoft-managed keys and secures data in transit with TLS 1.2 or higher. Customer-managed keys (CMK), which you create, own, and maintain in your Azure Key Vault (AKV), offer enhanced control over your encryption strategy. With … Continue reading “Customer-managed keys for Fabric workspaces (Generally Available) “