FabCon Europe took place in Barcelona from September 28 to October 1, 2026. Microsoft announced a long list of updates across Fabric and Power BI. The September 2026 Fabric feature summary alone has well over 100 items. These are the 10 announcements we’re most excited about. Most of them are in preview, so we’ve noted the release status for each one.
Creating a Fabric workspace takes about 30 seconds. Restructuring workspaces after people have built content in them takes a lot longer. Moving content to another workspace usually means redeploying or recreating it, and anything bound to the old item IDs has to be rebound: reports connected to a semantic model, a notebook’s default lakehouse, pipeline […]
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Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people who prefer a GUI over writing code to handle deployments, but the implementation has enough structural gaps that they fall apart for several real deployment workflows. Even when they do work, the UI isn’t always intuitive. Every piece of active software […]
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Fabric inbound network protection involves two tenant-level controls: Private Link and Block Public Internet Access. But enabling them disables several features.
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If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems useful, but I have no idea where to start,” this post is for you.
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Materialized lake views (MLVs) in Microsoft Fabric are an effective way to implement medallion architecture declaratively, but once you have a pipeline of MLVs in production, you need visibility into whether they’re current. Fabric’s MLV management area gives you a visual lineage and refresh history, but if you want to build automated alerting, logging, or […]
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There is currently no way to set a default value in a Power BI slicer visual. So how do you make reports show data for the current month by default while allowing users to select other months as needed? This video shows 3 options.
I previously wrote about how the underlying technology for Fabric mirroring changed with SQL Server 2025. The latest version of mirroring that uses the SQL Server Change Feed is reading from the database transaction logs and pushing the data to a landing zone in OneLake. The data is then merged into the Delta tables for […]
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SQL Server 2025 replaces CDC with a new change feed for Fabric mirroring giving you lower overhead, self-healing DDL, no sysadmin required. Here's what changed and what to plan for.
I just published a new video to our YouTube channel explaining how Azure Data Factory ForEach activities work as far as parallel execution.