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The Microsoft Fabric Service Status Page

Published 2025-07-22 by Kevin Feasel

Brent Ozar notes a new status page:

I’ve been pretty vocal here on the blog and on social media about the reliability problems with Microsoft Fabric. Today, I’ve got good news: Microsoft released a new Fabric status page and a known issues page, something that really does take guts given the current reliability situation.

It’ll be important to see how frequently they update this status page and if the page displays sufficient information on issues in a timely manner. But this is a good starting point.

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Private Endpoints in Fabric Eventstream now GA

Published 2025-07-17 by Kevin Feasel

Alex Lin makes an announcement:

We’re excited to announce the General Availability of Managed Private Endpoints (MPE) in Fabric Eventstream. This network security feature allows you to stream data from Azure resources to Fabric over a private and secure network without the complexity of manual network configurations.

Read on to see what private endpoints give you and what’s new for general availability.

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Error Handling in Microsoft Fabric Translytical Task Flows

Published 2025-07-16 by Kevin Feasel

Jon Vöge continues a series on write-back in Microsoft Fabric:

In my pursuit of testing out Translytical Task Flows and User Data Functions as a write-back alternative to Power Apps, I’ve come to spent a good amount of time trying to debug those features as well. Especially since they have a tendency to throw pretty non-descriptive error messages your way.

For this week’s blog post, I’ve made a small write-up of tips and tricks for troubleshooting and debugging translytical task flows, as this was something I struggled a little with myself.

Read on for several tips around better testing and error handling within these functions.

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Access Limits in Microsoft Fabric Workspaces

Published 2025-07-16 by Kevin Feasel

Brian Kernan announces a change:

In August 2025, Microsoft Fabric will introduce workspace access limits to improve service quality, reliability, and to encourage workspace access control hygiene. This limit will be permanent once it is rolled out – each Fabric & Power BI workspace will be limited to a maximum of 1,000 users or groups in workspaces roles (Admin, Member, Contributor, Viewer). A workspace with a group over 1,000 individuals will not be impacted by this change, the number of users within a group is not impacted. Additionally, workspaces that are overlimit at the time of access limit enforcement will remain overlimit, but no additional users or groups can be added until the workspace is under-limit.

I read this and I say “Hmm…” I’m not in a position where I could say that 1000+ users in a workspace is a bad idea that they’re protecting us from, or if it’s an implicit acknowledgement of failure to scale.

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Ingesting Logs into Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence via Logstash

Published 2025-07-15 by Kevin Feasel

Surya Teja Josyula and Ramachandran G. use one part of the ELK stack:

Logstash is an open-source data processing tool that enables the collection, transformation, and forwarding of data from a wide variety of sources. It acts as a data pipeline engine, helping organizations manage and streamline the flow of structured and unstructured data across systems.

Whether you’re managing infrastructure logs, application events, or telemetry data, this guide will walk you through setting up a seamless pipeline that bridges raw log data with real-time analytics in Fabric.

Click through for the process.

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Accessing Delta Lake Tables as Iceberg Data

Published 2025-07-11 by Kevin Feasel

Matthew Hicks makes an announcement:

We’re thrilled to announce an exciting new Preview capability in OneLake: you can now automatically read Delta Lake tables using Apache Iceberg compatible readers, with no need for migration, copying, or manual conversion. This enhancement gives data engineers and analytics teams unprecedented flexibility in how they access and interact with their data.

This is pretty neat, given that Iceberg is the other popular format for data lakes.

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Goodbye Default Contributor Role in Fabric Workspace Identities

Published 2025-07-10 by Kevin Feasel

Varun Jain makes a security announcement:

A Fabric workspace identity is an automatically managed service principal that can be associated with a Fabric workspace. Fabric workspaces with a workspace identity can securely read or write to firewall-enabled Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 accounts through trusted workspace access for OneLake shortcuts. Fabric items can use the identity when connecting to resources that support Microsoft Entra authentication. Fabric uses workspace identities to obtain Microsoft Entra tokens without the customer having to manage any credentials. 

Previously, a workspace identity was automatically assigned the workspace contributor role and had access to workspace items.  

Read on to see what’s changing, why, and what you can do instead.

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Writing Back to a Fabric Data Warehouse via UDF

Published 2025-07-08 by Kevin Feasel

Jon Vöge continues a series on write-back options into Microsoft Fabric:

In that article, we took advantage of some of the built-in sample code from the User Data Function editor, as well as some great code examples from Sujata: Example User data functions for Translytical task flows · GitHub

The problem? All of these samples use SQL Databases in Fabric as the backend item.

Jon switches this from a SQL database into a Fabric Data Warehouse, and notes some of the challenges along the way.

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