Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 Event Recap
Author: Tobin Thankachen | 5 min read | April 15, 2025
We were excited to light up the second annual Microsoft Fabric Community Conference, and it was incredible seeing how far the Fabric ecosystem has come since its release. It’s hard to think that this platform has been around for less than 2 years. Thousands of people attended this year’s FabCon, and we had many unforgettable experiences!
Microsoft Fabric Announcements at FabCon 2025
Fabcon started off strong, with a Microsoft keynote illuminating a massive set of Microsoft Fabric updates. Here are the announcement highlights for easy reference:
New Capabilities in Microsoft Fabric
- OneLake Security: Set up access permissions once and have Fabric enforce it across all the engines you use. This security can go all the way down to the row and column levels for granular data permissions. OneLake Security will enter public preview in several months.
- Agentic AI Integration: Fabric’s data agents can now integrate with Azure AI Foundry via the Azure AI Agent Service.
- Copilot and AI for all SKUs: All paid Fabric SKUs will have access to Copilot and AI., starting from the F2 tier.
- Migration Assistant for Fabric Data Warehouse: Migrate your existing Azure Synapse Analytics data warehouses into Microsoft Fabric with this new native functionality.
Platform Enhancements
- Infrastructure as Code: Fabric’s Terraform provider is now generally available for standardizing deployment and architecture.
- Tags: Tagging is now generally available in Microsoft Fabric to make it easier to improve data organization and governance.
- User Data Functions: You can set up custom business logic in Fabric data science and data engineering workflows This feature is currently in preview.
- AI Functions: This capability is in preview, and allows you to set up LLM transformations to OneLake data with one line of code.
Data Integration and Real-Time Intelligence
- Database Mirroring: Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server is now supported in Fabric mirroring. In addition, you can now use on-premises and virtual network data gateways to connect to sources.
- Dataflow Gen2: Incremental refresh is now generally available.
- Apache Airflow Jobs: You can now use Apache Airflow DAGs in Fabric.
- Azure and Fabric Events: This functionality is now generally available, and makes it possible to use Fabric as an event-driven platform.
- On-premises Data Gateway Support: Amazon S3, S3-compatible sources, and Google Cloud Platform gateways are now generally available.
- Cross-tenant Sharing: You’ll be able to share multiple tables, Lakehouse schemas, Fabric SQL database tables, KQL databases, and OneLake shortcuts. This functionality is coming soon.
Data Governance
- Microsoft Purview: Purview for Copilot in Power BI will soon be entering preview, allowing organizations to discover data risks in generative AI usage.
- Data Observability: This functionality is in preview in the Unified Catalog, making it easier to investigate data product and asset relationships to surface quality issues.
Light Hearted Fun at Our Microsoft Fabric Community Conference Booth
We wanted to illuminate the possibilities of Microsoft Fabric for everyone who stopped by the Datavail booth. Our custom Ah ha! Helmet was a big hit, and lots of people spun our prize wheel for fun swag and our Xbox Series X grand prize giveaway.
There were only a few (dozen) light-related puns being thrown around throughout the conference!
Games and Gleaming Data Conversations at Top Golf
During Fabcon, we also took a breather to head out to Top Golf. Plenty of data conversations and fun times were had with Datavail clients and Fabric-forward organizations.
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