There are loads of default semantic models and reports provided within Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. Take for example the capacity metrics, or all reports made available in the Admin Monitoring Workspace. However, all these solutions come with the same downside, being the data is available for a very short timeframe only. Capacity metrics only …
We’re at a point where the way we work with data is fundamentally shifting. Natural language is becoming the new interface, and tools like Microsoft Fabric are making it possible to ask questions and get answers straight from your data. One of the latest updates allow connecting Data Agents (formerly known as AI Skills) directly …
Continue reading Natural Language Interaction Isn’t Magic—It’s Semantic Modeling Done Right
Working with sensitive data in Microsoft Fabric requires careful handling of secrets, especially when collaborating externally. In a recent customer engagement, I needed to validate access to Azure Key Vault from within a Fabric Notebook, without ever exposing the actual secret values. With only read access granted and no need to manage or update secrets, …
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When working with Notebooks in Microsoft Fabric, exporting and reusing them across environments or tenants might seem like a harmless, even convenient, task. Whether you're sharing a template with a colleague, moving assets between workspaces, or contributing to the community — the last thing you'd expect is to accidentally include data along with your code. …
Continue reading The Hidden Risk in Fabric Notebook Exports: Your Data Travels Too
In Fabric, you can have many different items in your Workspace. So many, that you easily get lost! Luckily there are tools at hand like Taskflows and Workspace folders. But still, it can be challenging to easily find all your items that ingest data, or find all items that are used for inbetween layers to …
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Last week I was running a post-conference (postcon) workshop at Fabric February in Oslo. To have a successful postcon, workspaces were needed for all attendees of the workshop. In these workspaces they had to run their exercises and explore Fabric. But setting up a bunch of workspaces by hand, assigning it to a capacity and …
Continue reading Behind the Scenes: How I Automated My Fabric Workshop (training)
More often, people want to interact with their data in different ways than just a report. By popular demand, AI infused technologies are on top of the list. Customers are asking regularly if they can use Chat GPT on top of their own data, or similar experiences. Obviously, we will have copilot in list of …
Yes, you read it right. Most security implementations on data estates are a joke. It's just closing your eyes for what you can't see or don't feel responsible for. Too often I come across situations where the lack of security awareness and proper implementation results in locking the front door but leaving the back door …
Obviously, you don't want to start every solution from scratch. Therefore, it might be beneficial to kick-start your new solution by just importing components you already developed at earlier stages. Recently, I wanted to import a notebook to a Fabric workspace but was a bit confused. In this blog, I will further elaborate on the …
Continue reading Importing items to Fabric workspaces sounds easier than it is
A long time ago, I blogged about Power BI governance with topics like feature implementation in a phased approach and why you should consider to disable export to Excel. In this blog, I want to continue the governance topic with another blog about why monitoring your tenant is important! This blog will also provide you …
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