FabFest | Microsoft Fabric & AI Conference🤖

Happy New Year to our Microsoft Fabric and data community! 🎉 Wishing everyone a successful year ahead filled with learning and innovation. Here’s to new projects, new capabilities, and continued momentum across the Fabric ecosystem in the year ahead. Here's to 2026!🎆

Wishing everyone in the data community a Merry Christmas and a well-earned festive break🎄 Thank you for the collaboration throughout the year. It’s been great to learn and grow alongside this community. Enjoy the downtime, and here’s to more shared wins in the year ahead!🎁

Day 24 of our Education Advent! 🎄 Closing with a simple thank you to the creators, bloggers, video educators, community organisers, and everyone sharing knowledge. This community accelerates learning for everyone. ✨ Here’s to more collaboration and shared growth next year.

Day 23 of our Education Advent! 📏 Naming conventions, workspace structure, governance, storage patterns — consistency is everything. 📘 Fabric Best Practices Centre: learn.microsoft.com/fabric/best-pr… 🎥 Power BI Tuts – Practical modelling guidance: @PowerBITuts" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@PowerBITuts

Day 22 of our Education Advent! 🧠 Structured learning paths help you progress efficiently. 📘 Fabric Learn Collections: learn.microsoft.com/collections/?t… 📝 Data Mozart – curated Fabric learning lists: data-mozart.com @DataMozart

Day 21 of our Education Advent! 🤝 Fabric is growing fast, largely because of its community: 🌐 Microsoft Hub: learn.microsoft.com/fabric/communi… 📝 SQLBI (Marco & Alberto) – DAX + modelling best practices: sqlbi.com 💌 Fabric Weekly newsletter: fabricweekly.com

Day 20 of our Education Advent! 🚚 Moving from Synapse, ADF, Databricks, or legacy warehouses? Fabric has documented patterns to help. 📘 Microsoft Migration Hub: learn.microsoft.com/fabric/get-sta… 📝 Datalineo – Practical migration considerations: datalineo.com/blog

Day 19 of our Education Advent! 🗺️ Seeing how others architect Fabric environments is incredibly valuable. 📘 Microsoft Architecture Examples: learn.microsoft.com/fabric/archite… 🎥 @AdvancingAnalytics architecture deep dive: youtube.com/watch?v=Gkz7bF…

Day 18 of our Education Advent! 🔐 RBAC, workspace roles, permissions, and access patterns sit at the heart of a good Fabric design. 📘 Security Hub: learn.microsoft.com/fabric/securit… 🎥 Alex Powers – Security fundamentals for BI teams: @itsnotaboutthecell" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@itsnotaboutth…

Day 17 of our Education Advent! 💼 Capacity planning is a key part of any Fabric rollout; understanding SKUs, growth patterns, and workload distribution. 🎥 Enterprise DNA breakdown: youtube.com/watch?v=8kSnLh… 📝 Licensing & practical considerations: datagoblins.com

Day 16 of our Education Advent! 🔗 Shortcuts reference data across services without duplication. 📘 Shortcuts overview: learn.microsoft.com/fabric/onelake… 📝 Chris Webb’s practical example: blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2023/06/10/one…

Day 15 of our Education Advent! 🔄 Fabric’s Lakehouse uses Delta... Optimisation matters. 📘 Delta guidance: learn.microsoft.com/fabric/data-en… 🎥 Delta Lake community deep dive: youtube.com/watch?v=JvLwG5…

Day 14 of our Education Advent! 🥇 Bronze → Silver → Gold simplifies scalable transformations. 📘 Fabric Medallion guide: learn.microsoft.com/fabric/data-en… 📝 Community explainer (Advancing Analytics): youtube.com/watch?v=EMuRt9…

Day 13 of our Education Advent! 🛡️ Purview brings lineage, cataloguing, and compliance. 📘 Governance hub: learn.microsoft.com/fabric/governa… 🎥 Purview overview (Guy in a Cube): youtube.com/watch?v=4YzCIi…

Day 12 of our Education Advent! 📈 Monitoring usage and tuning performance are key. 📘 Monitoring overview: learn.microsoft.com/fabric/monitor… 📝 SQLBI performance tips: sqlbi.com/guides/perform…

Day 11 of our Education Advent! 🔄 Source control meets analytics with Git for Power BI + Fabric. 📘 Guide: learn.microsoft.com/fabric/cicd/gi… 🎥 Community Git demo (@DataGoblins ): youtube.com/watch?v=sAWGp9…

Day 10 of our Education Advent! 🏢 #Fabric’s warehouse gives you a fully managed SQL endpoint. 📘 Overview: learn.microsoft.com/fabric/data-wa… 📝 Chris Webb on Warehouse: blog.crossjoin.co.uk/tag/microsoft-…

Day 9 of our Education Advent! 🧩 Semantic models provide clean, reusable datasets for BI. 📘 Overview: learn.microsoft.com/fabric/semanti… 🎥 Tabular modelling (SQLBI): youtube.com/watch?v=7QOGsH…

Day 8 of our Education Advent! 🔬 Notebook-based workflows integrate #Spark, #Python, and #ML. 📘 Learning Path: learn.microsoft.com/training/paths… 🧪 Fabric ML YouTube series (Microsoft): youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Day 7 of our Education Advent! Pipelines + dataflows unify orchestration across your estate.🏗️ 📘 Fabric Data Factory: learn.microsoft.com/fabric/data-fa… 🎥 Pragmatic Works walkthrough: youtube.com/watch?v=hKmbt9…