4 Important Microsoft Fabric Features in August 2023 Update

August has been a month full of developments for the Microsoft Fabric community. Becoming a more mature product daily, Fabric will quickly find a place in many companies' data platform landscapes. Let's dive into August 2023 updates and pick out our favourites.

https://www.thatbluecloud.com/p/ffa57cd5-3f1d-4ea7-adcb-d2e979d91727/

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An Easy Learning Dataflows Gen2 Guide for ADF/Synapse Data Flow Users

Have you, like me, got overwhelmed when opening up the new Dataflows Gen2 experience in Fabric? Not only it runs on a different platform than ADF/Synapse Dataflows (which was Spark-based), it also has different terminology. This neat article maps ADF/Synapse flow activities to Fabric Dataflow ones.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-factory/guide-to-dataflows-for-mapping-data-flow-users

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Calling Durable Functions From Fabric Pipelines

Durable Functions are convenient when you need to do long-running custom operations. Now, like Synapse and Azure Data Factory, we can call Durable Functions from Fabric pipelines. Let’s dive into how.

https://www.thatbluecloud.com/p/719340b5-152e-49ee-adbc-0b631a2a136e/

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Triggering Synapse Pipelines from Microsoft Fabric via REST APIs 🔥

Fabric currently lacks the capability to call Synapse pipelines, which prevents Fabric from joining forces with your existing Synapse investment. However, Synapse pipelines can be triggered via the REST API, and with the recent Service Principal support in Fabric, we can do that with AAD auth.

https://www.thatbluecloud.com/p/eedbe8b6-5043-4ab6-9cb1-f99b3f0a3a22/

Fabric Data Factory Webinars – September 2023

Microsoft is organising a set of Fabric webinars, focusing specifically Data Factory component within Fabric. If you're interested, feel free to check it out on their website.

https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-GB/blog/microsoft-fabric-data-factory-webinar-series-september-2023/

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Fabric Readiness Repo

Microsoft announced a set of Fabric resources, including slide decks, for use of the community. They're especially useful if you wanted a slide deck to keep focus and initiate discussions in user groups.

https://github.com/microsoft/Fabric-Readiness/

Microsoft Dataverse OAuth API Limits ✋

Did you know that Dataverse and Dynamics 365 OAuth APIs enforce throttling if you go above certain thresholds? It could be why your Dataverse connector in Power BI is so slow!

The default service protection API limits per web server are:
📈 # of requests: 6000 within the 5 minute sliding window (approx. 5 req/sec)
🕓 Execution time: 20 minutes (1200 seconds) within the 5 minute sliding window
🔥 # of concurrent requests: 52

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/developer/data-platform/api-limits?tabs=sdk#how-service-protection-api-limits-are-enforced

Fabric Dataflows + Azure AD Service Principal Auth 🔑

You can now use Azure AD (Microsoft Entra ID) Service Principals in Fabric Dataflows when connecting to various Azure and web resources, including Synapse Analytics, ADLS Gen2, Azure Blob Storage and Microsoft Dataverse.

https://www.thatbluecloud.com/p/74fc162f-c301-47c0-93bd-9cef8679313f/

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Should You Migrate To Fabric?

Microsoft Fabric might be an upgrade to the Power BI game, but how do you move forward when you already have a massive investment in a data platform on your Azure cloud?

Would it justify ditching your existing investment of Synapse and move to Fabric?

In this article we'll be discussing the strengths and weaknesses of Microsoft Fabric and will try to answer that question.

https://www.thatbluecloud.com/should-you-migrate-to-fabric/

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Synapse Link for Dataverse is coming to Fabric! 🚀

The ability to integrate your Dataverse and Dynamics 365 data with Synapse Workspaces are now coming to Microsoft Fabric. You’ll be able to enrich your Lakehouses with Dataverse data without effort!

Microsoft to release this feature in Public Preview this month (Sept 2023): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/release-plan/2023wave1/data-platform/synapse-link-dataverse-enables-direct-integration-fabric-power-bi

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