Microsoft Fabric & Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform

Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end analytics solution with full-service capabilities including data movement, data lakes, data engineering, data integration, data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence—all backed by a shared platform providing robust data security, governance, and compliance.

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Your organization no longer needs to stitch together individual analytics services from multiple vendors. Instead, use a streamlined solution that’s easy to connect, onboard, and operate.

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Getting started with the different Fabric workloads

  1. What is fabric?
  2. Microsoft Fabric licenses​
  3. Buy a Microsoft Fabric subscription​
  4. Navigate the Fabric portal​
  5. Workspaces in Fabric
  6. See more

Onelake

  1. What is OneLake?​
  2. What are shortcuts?​
  3. Create a lakehouse with OneLake​
  4. OneLake and Azure Synapse Analytics​ integration​
  5. See more

Data Factory

  1. What is Data Factory?​
  2. Create your first pipeline​
  3. Create your first dataflow​
  4. Connectors​
  5. See more

Synapse Data Engineering​

  1. What is Data Engineering?​
  2. Create a Lakehouse​
  3. Create a Spark job definition​
  4. See more ​

Synapse Data science

  1. What is Data science?​
  2. Machine learning experiment​
  3. Use end-to-end AI samples​
  4. See more​

Synapse Data Warehouse

  1. What is Data Warehouse?​
  2. Create a Warehouse​
  3. Query using SQL query editor​
  4. See more​​

Synapse Real-Time Analytics​

  1. What is Real-Time Analytics?​
  2. What is Event stream?​
  3. Create a database​
  4. See more​ ​

Power BI

  1. What is Power BI?​
  2. What is a datamart?​
  3. Azure and Power BI integration​
  4. See more

Security, Governance, and Administration

  1. Buy a Microsoft Fabric subscription
  2. Fabric administration
  3. Data governance and compliance
  4. Security
  5. See more

Trial / Proof of Concept environments

It makes totally sense that you want to start experimenting with this (new) service. While everything is still new, I figured out an easy way for partners to get started internally, but also in a demo/POC context, which is useful for learning and also towards customers.

Activating a trial in your current M365 tenant is something that each customer can do. This trial can be activated via app.fabric.microsoft.com.

As a Microsoft Partner, it is also possible to set up a fully operational M365 tenant, in which you also can experiment with Fabric. The process below only works for registered Microsoft Partners and this via the work account of the employee that wants to set up the environment:

  1. Navigate to cdx.transform.microsoft.com/my-tenants
  2. here you can create a tenant by clicking on the “Create tenant” button.
    1. Then you can choose the duration (90 days is optimal, after that it’s easy to create a new one), the location, and the content pack. (Microsoft 365 Enterprise Demo Content is the best option)
    2. Select “create tenant” for the option that you choose and then agree to the terms and conditions.
    3. At this point you will get an overview page of the created tenant. in that overview page, you will get login information of an admin account and of 25 dummy accounts.
    4. With those credentials, you can log in to the tenant and start exploring the environment. (best way to do so is by creating a new browser profile in edge to keep the different security contexts separated)
    5. And this is where next steps depend on the date:
      1. if it is before july first 2023, then you will need to activate fabric on the tenant level. this can be done in the m365 admin portal by navigating to the PowerBI admin dashboard. There you’ll be able to activate the use of fabric in this tenant.
      2. if is after july first 2023, then fabric will be activated by default and you can start using it right away.
    6. At this point, you should be able to navigate to https://app.powerbi.com/ in the new tenant and start playing around with the service. You’ll most likely need to activate a 60-day trial, but that is ok. after those 60 days, you can just create a new tenant and start over. (do remove the first tenant after that, to preserve resources)

The result should be that you see something like this:

Learning - Labs

If you want to get started and experiment with the different workloads, you can use the following labs:

https://microsoftlearning.github.io/mslearn-fabric/

Takeaways from conferences

Microsoft Fabric Community conference

The follwing links have been mentioned in the “Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference” blogpost by Arun Ulag (Corporate Vice President, Azure Data–Microsoft): 

Useful resources