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Introducing High Concurrency Mode in Notebooks for Data Engineering and Data Science workloads in Microsoft Fabric

We are excited to announce a new high concurrency mode in Fabric for Data Engineering and Data Science. This allows users to share Spark compute across multiple notebooks within a workspace which means that you can run multiple Spark notebooks simultaneously on the same Spark session without compromising performance or security when paying for a … Continue reading “Introducing High Concurrency Mode in Notebooks for Data Engineering and Data Science workloads in Microsoft Fabric”

Heads up: Changes to Excel workbook support in Power BI workspaces

We are announcing the deprecation of some features for Excel workbooks in Power BI workspaces. This can impact organizations and users who use these capabilities. This blog outlines the changes, the timelines for deprecation, and how to update your workbooks. It also explains how to determine what workbooks in your organization are impacted.

Announcing automatic scaling for dataset scale-out public preview

We’re excited to announce that we’ve reached the final milestone in our dataset scale-out public preview journey! We started the preview without auto-sync and with single read-only replica per dataset. A few months ago, we introduced auto-sync, and now Power BI can create as many read-only replicas as your Power BI capacity supports. Dataset scale-out is no longer limited to a single read-only replica per dataset.

Improving the communication performance of XMLA-based tools

We are thrilled to announce that we have made some significant performance improvements to the XMLA-endpoint communication in Power BI. Specifically, we have switched XMLA-based communication from plain text XML to binary XML and enabled compression for the .NET client libraries. Make sure you upgrade to version 19.61.1.4 or later to benefit from this improvement.

Microsoft Fabric July 2023 Update

Welcome to the July 2023 update. We have features in Core, Synapse, Data Factory, Data Activator, Community, and Power BI. Contents Core Help Pane Monitoring Hub improvements Admin Microsoft Public Preview Default Sharing On by Default Effective July 5th, 2023 OneLake OneLake file explorer update with support for switching organizational accounts Item sharing Synapse Data … Continue reading “Microsoft Fabric July 2023 Update”