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Fabric September 2025 Feature Summary

September 16, 2025 by Adam Saxton 93,572 Views

Welcome to the Fabric September 2025 Feature Summary! This month’s update is packed with exciting enhancements, such as new certification opportunities, the Power BI DataViz World Championships at FabCon Vienna, and major advancements in the Fabric Platform. Highlights include the general availability of the Govern Tab and Domains Public APIs and expanded Microsoft Purview protection …

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Extending Point-in-Time Retention in Fabric SQL DB: From 7 to 35 Days

In today’s data-driven world, resilience and recoverability are no longer optional—they’re foundational. Microsoft Fabric continues to evolve as a unified data platform, and one of its most impactful enhancements is the ability to extend point-in-time restore (PITR) retention for Fabric SQL databases from the default 7 days to up to 35 days. This feature empowers …

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Unlocking Seamless Data Integration with the Latest Fabric Data Factory Connector Innovations

In the world of modern analytics, connectivity is everything. Your data ecosystem is only as powerful as your ability to connect to diverse sources, move data securely, and keep it fresh for business insights. That’s why Microsoft Fabric has been doubling down on Data Factory connectors—expanding coverage, improving performance, and enabling new enterprise-grade integration scenarios. …

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Fabric CLI: open source, AI-ready, and more powerful

The Fabric CLI is now open source—marking a major milestone in its evolution from a fast, intuitive, and scriptable interface for Microsoft Fabric into a community-driven platform for automation and exploration. Whether used interactively for ad-hoc operations or non-interactively in CI/CD pipelines, the CLI empowers developers to work efficiently and flexibly. With version 1.1.0, it …

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Memory consumption metrics in Fabric SQL Database

Overview SQL Database in Fabric continues its commitment to providing you with robust tools for database management, performance monitoring, and optimization. Earlier this year, we released a performance dashboard to help you monitor and improve the performance of your SQL Database in Fabric. We’ve improved upon those performance monitoring capabilities with the ability to track …

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Outbound Access Protection for Spark (Generally Available)

Outbound Access Protection (OAP) is designed to help restrict outbound connectivity from a Fabric workspace to help prevent data exfiltration.  With OAP for Spark, Organizations can govern outbound connections from their Spark workloads in Fabric workspaces to external destinations and other Fabric workspaces within the same tenant providing organizations with granular controls to protect against data exfiltration.   To learn more about Workspace OAP, refer to the Introducing Workspace Outbound Access …

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