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Fabric November 2025 Feature Summary

November 18, 2025 by Adam Saxton 82,829 Views

The November 2025 Fabric release introduces several major updates, including the general availability of SQL database, Cosmos DB, and enhanced mirroring support for key data sources such as SQL Server, Cosmos DB, and PostgreSQL. This month also brings new AI-driven features like Copilot sidecar chat tools and real-time data exploration, as well as crucial platform …

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How does Fabric make Spark Notebooks Instant?

Discover how Microsoft Fabric’s Forecasting Service system reduces Spark startup latency and cloud costs through proactive AI and ML-driven resource provisioning. Context & Relevance Waiting minutes for a Spark cluster to become available can throttle analytics velocity, delay insights, and drive-up cloud spend. In a world where data teams expect near‐instant execution and seamless burst …

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Optimizing Permissions with OneLake Security ReadWrite Access

Many data teams face the same challenge: balancing the need for open collaboration with the responsibility of protecting sensitive information. As organizations grow, data often lives across multiple domains—some containing critical or confidential datasets—while partner teams may only need access to a subset of that information. Until recently, maintaining this balance often meant trade-offs. Teams …

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Billing for Anomaly Detector in Real-Time Intelligence

We have an important update for customers using Anomaly Detector in Microsoft Fabric’s Real-Time Intelligence (RTI). This feature, currently in Preview, helps you spot unusual patterns in streaming data from Eventhouse tables—without the need for complex data science tools. It’s designed to make anomaly detection simple, fast, and accessible. What does billing entail? Starting in …

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Run Notebooks in Pipelines with Service Principal or Workspace Identity

  • Headshot of article author December 4, 2025 by Connie Xu 12,887 Views

Notebook activity in Microsoft Fabric Data Factory pipelines now supports connection property—unlocking a more secure and production-ready way to run your notebooks. What’s New? With this update, you can configure Notebook activities to run as Service Principal (SPN) or Workspace Identity (WI). These authentication methods are our recommended approach for production environments, ensuring: Why it …

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Unlocking Enterprise AI: Seamless Integration of OneLake Files in Microsoft Foundry IQ

Microsoft Fabric’s OneLake is redefining how organizations manage and leverage their data. Now, with native integration into Microsoft Foundry IQ, teams can unlock the full potential of their unstructured and semi-structured files without the hassle of data duplication or complex pipelines. OneLake brings together structured tables and unstructured files such as documents, images, logs, transcripts …

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