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Fabric February 2026 Feature Summary

February 25, 2026 by Katie Murray 98,337 Views

Welcome to the February 2026 Microsoft Fabric update! This month brings a wide range of enhancements across the Fabric platform—from improvements to the OneLake Catalog and developer experiences, to meaningful updates in Data Engineering, Data Factory, Real‑Time Intelligence, and more. Whether you’re building, operating, or scaling solutions in Fabric, there’s plenty here to explore. And …

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ExtractLabel: Schema-driven unstructured data extraction with Fabric AI Functions

Most enterprise data lives in free text – tickets, contracts, feedback, clinical notes, and more. It holds critical information but doesn’t fit into the structured tables that pipelines expect. Traditionally, extracting structure meant rule-based parsers that break with every format to change, or custom NLP models that take weeks to build. LLMs opened new possibilities, …

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Powering secure private network streaming to Fabric with Eventstream connectors (Preview)

  • Headshot of article author March 5, 2026 by Xu Jiang 11,291 Views

Data is a critical asset for organizations, providing the insights needed to inform and accelerate business decisions. In today’s fast-paced environment, access to real-time data is increasingly essential. The data is generated across many areas of the business, including IoT device telemetry, application monitoring, and financial transactions. As the volume of real-time data continues to …

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Update to required permissions for Semantic Models in Fabric Data Agents

We’re announcing an update to the permissions required to interact with semantic models in Fabric data agents. Today: As a creator, you must have access to the workspace where the semantic model lives and Build permission on the semantic model to add semantic model to a data agent. As a consumer, you need Read access …

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Evaluate Power Query Programmatically in Microsoft Fabric (Preview)

Power Query has long been at the center of data preparation across Microsoft products—from Excel and Power BI to Dataflows and Fabric. We’re introducing a major evolution: the ability to execute Power Query programmatically through a public API. This capability turns Power Query into a programmable data transformation engine that can be invoked on demand …

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Fabric Influencers Spotlight February 2026

Welcome to the February 2026 edition of the Fabric Influencers Spotlight, a recurring monthly post here to shine a bright light on the places on the internet where Microsoft MVPs & Fabric Super Users are doing some amazing work on all aspects of Microsoft Fabric. The Microsoft Fabric Community team has created the Fabric Influencers Spotlight to …

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