If your Fabric tenant is located outside of the US or France, this blog post is for you! (addition to the already existing documentation) Today was the day – Copilot for Microsoft Fabric was released into public preview for everyone. As of today, you can enable and use Copilot in your Fabric tenant. And not only Copilot for Power BI, but also Copilot for Data Factory as well as Copilot for Data Science and Data Engineering in your notebooks. There are some requirements to be met (see here ) before you can start using Copilot in Fabric. Requirements to enable Fabric Copilot And those were the s ..read more

I am not in Seattle this week so I had to watch the Fabric GA (general availability) announcement session with Amir, Arun, Justyna, Jessica and Patrick. And wow – although I could try and play with Microsoft Fabric in private and public preview and even build some PoC for our customers I was really impressed by the news that were announced during the session. Note: It’s not too late to register for Ignite (virtual edition) for free and re-watch the recording of this session (https://ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions/1eff13d6-1924-435a-8778-111d7131f061?source=sessions) But now, it’s time fo ..read more

This week is Microsoft Ignite 2023 week and today was time for the keynote sessions and some major announcements. You can read more about all the news in the official Microsoft Ignite 2023 Book of News. Microsoft Fabric is general available (GA) Since the public preview announcement of Microsoft Fabric at Build 2023, many enhancement have been added and feedback from public preview users had been incorporated. At Ignite 2023, the general availability (GA) of Fabric was announced. If you have not watched it live (or live-streamed), the data keynote with Amir, Arun and many others is a must watc ..read more

Have you heard about the new kid in town – Microsoft Fabric? In public preview since May 2023 (Microsoft Build) we had some time to play with it and build our first projects based on this new analytics, SaaS platform. Today, I’ve seen the announcement by Kim Manis, that a new exam will be released in January 2024 The exam page list the DP-600: Implementing Analytics Solutions using Microsoft Fabric with some more knowledge areas/technologies that will be part of the exam: Lakehouses Data warehouses Notebooks Dataflows Data pipelines Semantic models Reports Some links: Exam detail page (DP ..read more

Another nice feature update for administrators hit Microsoft Fabric – tenant settings got a search box! Before the this new feature was added to the tenant settings page in October, you had one chance to search for the right tenant setting in the long list – the browser search feature. Just hit CTRL + F and search for i.e. Excel. With the new search box, you can now easily filter the long list of tenant settings. What I really like is, that the title and the description is included in the search – so for my Excel keyword in the text box, five settings are returned. If you want to see this fe ..read more

Hi Fabricators, Hi Fabric-Admins, I know this page existed for a longer period, but only for Power BI – https://support.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/support/. Now, with Microsoft Fabric in place, you get an overview about the service status of all the Fabric workloads there. featured image generated by DALL-E (ChatGPT Plus ..read more

Are you searching for Microsoft Fabric Presentations? You want learn more about the new unified analytics solution? There are plenty of presentation available around the internet – some only as recordings, some as PDFs only. BUT – last week, I found a (now not more) hidden gem of Microsoft Fabric content on the internet – the Microsoft Fabric Readiness repository (https://github.com/microsoft/Fabric-Readiness/) . As of today (2023-09-10), the repository contains seven presentations focusing on different areas in Microsoft Fabric. Unified Analytics Data Engineering Data Science Data Warehousin ..read more

Long time, no Power BI blog post from my side. But today I found out, that the testing of your row-level-security (RLS) logic in the Power BI service changed “a little bit” since I last used it. Whenever you want to test your RLS logic, you can do this in Power BI Desktop (Mange Roles for definition, “View as” for testing). Test row-level security in Power BI Desktop OR: you can test your logic in the Power BI service. Options-menu on the dataset -> Security will open the list of defined roles in your dataset. The Row-Level Security page lists you all the defined roles and with the three li ..read more

You heard all the hype messages , read all tweets & posts about the public preview announcement of Microsoft Fabric after the MS Build 2023 Conference? You really want to test Fabric on your own, but your Power BI / Fabric Admin does not allow you to test it in your company tenant? I want to test Fabric… is there an easy (and cost-effective aka free) way to do this? There is an easy way on how to test Microsoft Fabric in your own (dev) environment – for free! And event better: now only for you but also for – in total 25 users! Yes – you can create your own Microsoft 365 tenant and test F ..read more

Wouldn’t it be handy to have an option to testdrive some Microsoft 365 scenarios including the full app suite (in M365 E5?). There are trial licenses available but what if you want to create more test users and you do not want to create test/sample data on your own? What about testing Power BI features without asking your colleagues to “test-share”-drive some collaboration features? What about testing those PowerPlatform scenarios you really wanted to try out but you do not have the licences assigned to your user? Well… there is an easy way to start you Microsoft 365 test-journey today. With ..read more