April 2025
Watchlist: Fabric Features We're Monitoring in H2 2025
The Fabric features I'm actually watching for the second half of 2025 — the ones that could genuinely change the work, and the ones I'll believe when I see them running.
The First 90 Days with Microsoft Fabric: An SME Analytics Leader's Journal
An honest journal of the first ninety days adopting Microsoft Fabric — the real wins, the surprises the demos never mention, and the bumps worth warning you about before you hit them.
Microsoft Sustainability Scorecards: What SMEs Can Track Right Now (and What Not)
What Microsoft's sustainability data tooling can actually track this spring — energy, cost, estimated emissions — and, just as importantly, the things it can't, and you shouldn't pretend it does.
FabCon 2025: OneLake Security Finally Grows Up (and So Do the Agents)
Amid the now-obligatory wall of agent announcements, FabCon 2025 shipped the thing I've wanted for two years: define your security once and have Fabric enforce it across every engine. That's the announcement that actually changes how I'd build.
Three Fabric Shortcuts That Changed How We Deliver Reports
OneLake shortcuts let you use data where it lives instead of copying it everywhere. Three ways that changed how we deliver reports — reuse, trust, and speed.