Welcome to the February 2026 Microsoft Fabric update! This month brings a wide range of enhancements across the Fabric platform—from improvements to the OneLake Catalog and developer experiences, to meaningful updates in Data Engineering, Data Factory, Real‑Time Intelligence, and more. Whether you’re building, operating, or scaling solutions in Fabric, there’s plenty here to explore. And … Continue reading “Fabric February 2026 Feature Summary”
OneDrive and SharePoint (ODSP) shortcuts let you use your existing Microsoft 365 files directly in OneLake without copying or moving them. This gives analytics, BI, and AI workloads a unified, governed view of both structured data and documents. This eliminates duplication and silos while enabling powerful scenarios like combining spreadsheets with Lakehouse data, indexing documents for AI, and optionally transforming files … Continue reading “OneLake SharePoint and OneDrive shortcuts now support workspace and service principal identities (Preview)”
Let’s be real: expecting every data creator in your organization to manually apply the correct sensitivity label to every new Lakehouse or Warehouse is a bit like expecting everyone to use their turn signal in a parking lot—it’s the right thing to do, but people get busy, and things get missed. Realistically, relying on every … Continue reading “Governance on autopilot: The power of default domain labels in Fabric (Generally Available)”
We announced Outbound Access Protection for Spark (Generally Available) and recently extended it to support SQL Endpoint and Warehouse. Now, Pipelines, Copy job, Dataflows, OneLake Shortcuts as well as Mirrored Databases (such as Mirrored SQL Database, Mirrored Snowflake) support Workspace level Outbound Access Protection (Preview). Key Benefits What to expect with Outbound access protection (OAP) … Continue reading “Workspace Outbound Access Protection for Data Factory and OneLake Shortcuts (Preview)”
If you’ve been trying to keep up with everything shipping in Microsoft Fabric, this January 2026 round-up is for you—covering the biggest updates across the platform, from new AI-powered catalog experiences and OneLake governance improvements to enhancements in Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Real-Time Intelligence, and Data Factory. If you haven’t already, make sure FabCon Atlanta … Continue reading “Fabric January 2026 Feature Summary”
