Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

Snowflake Key-Pair Authentication (Generally Available)

Coauthor: Abhishek Narain Ensuring secure connectivity to your data sources is critical for modern data estates. We have released the Key-Pair authentication for Snowflake connections Preview in October and are happy to announce it is now Generally Available (GA). This release offers an enhanced security alternative to basic authentication methods, such as username and password, … Continue reading “Snowflake Key-Pair Authentication (Generally Available)”

Manual update for on-premises data gateway (Preview)

The On-premises Data Gateway manual update feature is now available in preview! This new capability simplifies gateway maintenance and helps you keep your environment secure and up to date with greater flexibility and control. With this new feature, administrators can now manually trigger updates—either directly through the gateway UI or programmatically via API or script. … Continue reading “Manual update for on-premises data gateway (Preview)”

A turning point for enterprise data warehousing 

As executives plan the next phase of their data and AI transformation, the bar for analytics infrastructure continues to rise. Enterprises are expected to support traditional business intelligence, increasingly complex analytics, and a new generation of AI-driven workloads—often on the same data, at the same time, and with far greater expectations for speed and cost … Continue reading “A turning point for enterprise data warehousing “

Workspace Outbound Access Protection for Data Factory and OneLake Shortcuts (Preview)

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)”