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Microsoft Fabric Roadmap

Planned and shipped features across Microsoft Fabric workloads.

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Administration, Governance and Security· 2025 Wave 1 (Bromine) (Public)

Fabric OneLake catalog - Enhanced Exploration

The OneLake catalog is a comprehensive solution designed to explore, manage, and govern your entire Fabric data estate. OneLake catalog empowers all Fabric users to discover and manage trusted data. The catalog provides governance for data owners with valuable insights, recommended actions, and tooling. It features tw…

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Q1 2026
General availability
2025 Wave 1 (Bromine) (Public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)

Managed virtual network support for Spark

Spark, as we know is a distributed processing system used for big data workloads. Hence, Spark in Fabric warrants access to data, at scale but also the ability to connect to protected data sources, as most business-critical data is secured in private networks. The Managed VNets feature allows Spark to seamlessly conne…

Shipped
Q1 2024
Public preview
2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)

Fabric as a trusted service for Azure Storage

You'll be able to add the Fabric workspace identity (FWI) as a trusted identity for a storage account. This allows seamless connectivity to Azure Storage accounts secured by a firewall. It also enables traffic using that Fabric workspace identity from the corresponding workspace to connect to the storage account. For…

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Q1 2024
Public preview
2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)

Disaster recovery support

The goal of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) is to ensure uninterrupted access to data and services during data center outages or regional disasters. As we shift towards a self-service SaaS model for our cloud-scale analytics solutions, we understand the need for minimal configuration and planning for…

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Q1 2024
General availability
2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)

Fabric Admin APIs

Admin APIs in Microsoft Fabric offers programmatic access to administrative functions within the Fabric service. Admin APIs play an important role in automating essential admin and governance tasks, including activities such as monitoring, auditing, compliance, access controls, etc. The existing PBI-only admin APIs ha…

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Q1 2024
Public preview
2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2024 Wave 1 (Dilithium) (Public)

Private Link support at a tenant level

Organizations can enhance security by using private links, allowing users in their tenant to access Microsoft Fabric securely. This setup uses Azure Private Link and Azure Networking private endpoints to ensure data traffic travels privately via Microsoft's backbone network, instead if using public endpoints. The Priv…

Shipped
Q2 2024
General availability
2024 Wave 1 (Dilithium) (Public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)

External data sharing public preview

Sharing data across organizations has become a standard part of day-to-day business for many of our customers. External data sharing, now in public preview is built on top of OneLake shortcuts,and enables seamless, in-place sharing of data across tenant boundaries. This can be used by retailers sharing data with suppl…

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Q2 2024
Public preview
2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2024 Wave 1 (Dilithium) (Public)

External data sharing enhancements

We will introduce additional enhancements to Fabric external data sharing, including Public APIs, the ability to share multiple tables, and to share eventhouse tables.

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Q2 2025
Public preview
2024 Wave 1 (Dilithium) (Public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2024 Wave 1 (Dilithium) (Public)

Multi-tenant organzation (MTO) MVP

A Multi-Tenant Organization (MTO) is a single organization that has more than one Entra ID (formerly known as AAD) tenant. In an MTO, users from one tenant are added into another tenant as external members. An external member is authenticated by the owner tenant and is granted member level access in the member tenant.…

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Q4 2024
Public preview
2024 Wave 1 (Dilithium) (Public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)

Private Link support at a tenant Level

Organizations can enhance security by using private links, allowing users in their tenant to access Microsoft Fabric securely. This setup uses Azure Private Link and Azure Networking private endpoints to ensure data traffic travels privately via Microsoft's backbone network, instead if using public endpoints. The Priv…

Shipped
Q1 2024
Public preview
2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)

Admin API to query delegated tenant settings

This API enables tenant administrators to track settings modifications made by other administrators at capacity, domain, or workspace levels. It scans and returns all the units of governance or a group of such units where the tenant admin settings have been overridden. In the initial release, we aim to include the abi…

Shipped
Q1 2024
Public preview
2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)

Workspace recovery

In the event of unintentional workspace deletions, this feature allows tenant admins to recover workspaces, including Fabric items. Admins can set recovery policies and recover the deleted workspaces within a specified timeframe. Deleted workspaces are soft deleted and recoverable by the tenant admins. Tenant admins w…

Shipped
Q1 2024
General availability
2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2024 Wave 1 (Dilithium) (Public)

Workspace monitoring

Fabric workspace administrators and developers require access to detailed diagnostic logs and workload metrics to troubleshoot performance issues, capacity performance, and data downtime. As part of the Fabric Monitoring feature we intend to provide a read-only database of workspace logs that users can query ad-hoc, a…

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Q4 2024
Public preview
2024 Wave 1 (Dilithium) (Public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)

Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels

Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels integration into Fabric introduces the familiar concept of sensitivity from Office. In Office, you can see confidential documents and emails, and you may not be authorized to export sensitive data. Similarly in Fabric you can easily identify and control confi…

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Q1 2024
General availability
2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)

Purview Information Protection default sensitivity labels policy

Compliance and security admins can configure the label policy in Microsoft Purview compliance portal to automatically apply a sensitivity label to newly created Fabric items. This helps organizations meet compliance and regulatory requirements of having all their data in Fabric with sensitivity labels.

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Q1 2024
General availability
2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)

Require users to apply Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels

Compliance and security admins can configure the label policy in Microsoft Purview compliance portal to require users to apply sensitivity label to newly created Fabric items. This helps organizations meet compliance and regulatory requirements of having all their data in Fabric with sensitivity labels.

Shipped
Q1 2024
General availability
2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)

More users in the organization can edit and republish protected PBIX files in Power BI Desktop

This feature allows users with a wider range of sensitivity permissions from the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to open, edit, and publish encrypted PBIX files in Power BI desktop. Some limitations apply.

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Q1 2024
Public preview
2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)

Restrict access to content by using Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels to apply protection

In the Microsoft Purview Information Protection portal where security admins can create sensitivity labels and also restrict access to Fabric items that the label will be applied to, similar to how they can restrict access to Microsft 365 content (files ,emails, meetings, etc). For example you can protect content in t…

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Q3 2024
Public preview
2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)

Microsoft Purview data loss prevention policies for Lakehouses in OneLake

Security admins can create in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention portal policies to detect the upload of sensitive data (such as social security number) to Fabric Lakehouse. If such an upload is detected, the policies will trigger automatic audit activity and can be configured to show a custom policy tip to data o…

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Q4 2024
Public preview
2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)

Purview hub for administrators and data owners

Fabric admins and data owners can gain valuable insights about sensitive data, certified and promoted items. They contain insights about sensitive data, certified and promoted items, and a gateway to advanced capabilities in Microsoft Purview portals.

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Q1 2024
Public preview
2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)

Microsoft Fabric Reserved Instance offerings in Azure

Currently all the capabilities of Fabric are available for purchase within Azure with a Pay-as-you-go offering with lower purchase points. You can pause/resume and scale up/down on demand. Soon you can purchase a 1-year reservation for Fabric with large discounts for that commitment.

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Q4 2023
Public preview
2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)

Microsoft Fabric Git integration (ADO)

Git integration is offered to users connecting to Azure DevOps repositories, enabling synchronization between Microsoft Fabric workspace and the selected Git repository (for commits and updates). Additional Microsoft Fabric items will support source control - Data pipeline, Warehouse, Spark Environment and Spark Job D…

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Q1 2024
Public preview
2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)

Deployment pipelines

As organizations increasingly adopt Deployment pipelines, there's a growing demand to add more stages to these pipelines. This year, we'll enable customers to define and customize the number of stages for each pipeline they create. Furthermore, certain Microsoft Fabric items will become deployable as part of a pipelin…

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Q4 2023
General availability
2023 Wave 2 (Germanium) - (public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2024 Wave 2 (Selenium) (Public)

OneLake Catalog - Govern Tab for Data Owners

The Goven tab in OneLake Catalog, is a central place for data owners to find insights on their data, get recommended actions and find all the solutions in Fabric available for themAs part of the public preview, Data owners will be able to see information about the data they created, such as insights on their item inve…

Shipped
Q1 2025
Public preview
2024 Wave 2 (Selenium) (Public)
Official
Administration, Governance and Security· 2025 Wave 1 (Bromine) (Public)

OneLake Catalog - Govern Tab For Data Owners

The Goven tab in OneLake Catalog, is a central place for data owners to find insights on their data, get recommended actions and find all the solutions in Fabric available for themAs part of the general availability, Data owners will be able to see information about items permissions, external shares and failed refres…

Shipped
Q3 2025
General availability
2025 Wave 1 (Bromine) (Public)
Official