Special Ignite Edition, Fabric Community Update - November 2024
🎉 Celebrating One Year of Microsoft Fabric! 🎉
Friday, November 15, Fabric turned 1! We couldn't have reached this milestone without the incredible support and collaboration from the entire Fabric community! 🎂
We speak for the entire Fabric community team when we say thank you to everyone that has ever made a post, replied to a post, participated in a User Group, and to all of our Super Users that posted in the galleries or otherwise participated in the Fabric Community. You truly are what makes the Fabric community so great.
Here’s to one year of growth, and an even brighter future ahead! We can't wait to see what’s next as we continue to build, learn, and collaborate with this amazing community.
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Fabric community enhancements announced
We are excited to announce updates and enhancements to the Fabric community. We are continuing to expand and improve the Fabric community experience for our members and align with our growing product portfolio. You will find new features and updates that make the community experience easier to navigate and provide our members with a premier community experience.
Forum and gallery experiences: The community experience for Data Engineering, Data Warehouse and Data Science have been promoted to their own forum experience, and expanded to include their own Webinars and Video Gallery as each of these workloads have their own distinct audiences.
You'll find a forum board and gallery focused on Databases.
Fabric platform forums is the place to ask general questions about Fabric and share what you know in a gallery post.
You can find and bookmark each by visiting the community landing page and selecting the icon, as seen below, or by selecting Forums in the header. Visit the forums to learn more and ask questions.
Reflex: In the Real-Time Intelligence forum experience, the Reflex forum board name has been updated to Activator.
Fabric community Blogs: The community blogs have also expanded to align with the growing Fabric portfolio. In addition to five new community blogs, all community blogs can now be accessed from a single page, Fabric community blogs.
Data Engineering Community Blog
These blogs, written by our community members, are available in a single location, accessible through the header at the top of the page under Blogs. If you are interested in getting started blogging or a current blog author, please review the updated documentation: Blogging in the Community.
Support: If you are looking for support related to your community experience, or would like to share feedback with the team, visit the Fabric Community support. Navigation to the support area is now available in the header under Resources.
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Popular blogs
Here are some community blogs from the past month, that are getting attention and that you might be interested in!
- Color Choice: How a Minimalist Approach Enhances User Experience by @Kedar_Pande
- Import Microsoft Planner Data into Power BI Using Power Automate and SharePoint by @anmolmalviya05
- Snapshot data from Power BI Report automatically and feed them back with Fabric by @zenisekd
Blogs from the Fabric team
- Fabric October 2024 Monthly Update
- Power BI October 2024 Feature Summary
- Usage reporting for Data Activator is now live
- Fabric Influencers Spotlight October 2024
- Announcing public preview of VARCHAR(MAX) and VARBINARY(MAX) types in Fabric Data Warehouse
Community Spotlight Member
Each month a member of the Fabric Community is chosen to be showcased for their exemplary community contributions. Community Spotlight Members answer questions, provide solutions and share their expert knowledge. They are valued community members that go above and beyond to support the Fabric Community.
Meet @bhanu_gautam in the Fabric Community.
- Super User
- Power BI Community Member since 2023
- 271 Kudos
- 236 solutions authored
- 751 Replies
People are finding solutions
These are the most popular questions about Fabric that got answered in the past month.
- Power BI: Circular dependency preventing scheduled refresh of data in Power BI service
- Fabric Platform: Running Mssparkutils.credentials.getToken() with Fabric scope doesn't work in Data Pipeline
- Data Factory: Referencing notebook exit value as a variable in a data pipeline
- Real-Time Intelligence: Hard error writing onto a lakehouse as an eventstream destination
Popular discussions
These are the trending discussions in the forums.
- Power BI: Gathering data from API in Power BI
- Fabric Platform: Writing to a Lakehouse in different workspace from Notebook
- Data Factory: How to Copy files/tables from lakehouse to another lakehouse in other workpace?
- Real-Time Intelligence: Kafka Request Message Too Large
Trending Data Stories for Power BI
Visit the Data Stories Gallery for more inspiration and ideas.
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