Episode 327 - Microsoft Fabric June 2026 Feature Summary part 1

This is episode 329, recorded live from the European Power Platform Conference in Copenhagen, where John and Jason dig into how Power Platform and Fabric fit together. Dataverse Fabric Link and its sharp edges, when to skip Dataverse for Fabric SQL, Rayfin as the dark horse, and whether low-code survives the AI era. Enjoy.

This is episode 328, recorded live from the European Power Platform Conference in Copenhagen, where John and Jason wrap the Fabric June 2026 feature summary. GPUs come to the data warehouse, business events get a coming-out party, Kafka goes GA, and Project Rayfin brings real apps to Fabric. Enjoy.

This is episode 327, recorded on June 8th, 2026, where John and Jason start in on the Fabric June 2026 feature summary. Build gets a recap, GitHub Enterprise lands in Git integration, OneLake gets storage tiers, AI functions move to GPT-5 mini, and Conversational Analytics arrives as its own section. Enjoy.

This is episode 326, recorded on May 7th, 2026, where John and Jason break down the Power BI & Fabric April 2026 Feature Summaries — DAX user-defined functions are here in preview, Direct Lake is flexing new modeling muscles, the Dataflows Gen1 community drama has a plot twist, Fabric Data Warehouse finally gets true transactional DDL, and VS Code integration in Fabric notebooks keeps leveling up. It's the April feature summary double-header. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 325, recorded April 17th, 2026, where John and Jason dig into the Real-Time Intelligence section of the Microsoft Fabric March 2026 Feature Summary covering topics such as Business Events, DeltaFlow for CDC, real-time processing with Spark notebooks, and some welcome quality-of-life updates across Event House and workspace monitoring. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 324, recorded on April 17th, 2026, where John and Jason continue through the Microsoft Fabric March 2026 Feature Summary — the Data Science & AI rebrand with Fabric Data Agents reaching GA, AutoML going GA, multimodal support for AI functions, the Data Warehouse section covering Fabric Data Warehouse recovery, Activator support, T-SQL AI functions, ANY_VALUE aggregate, Custom SQL Pools, SQL audit logs GA, outbound access protection, and the big one — the Database Hub, Fabric's new unified control plane for databases across edge, on-prem, cloud and Fabric. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 323, recorded on April 16th, 2026, where John and Jason dig into part one of the Microsoft Fabric March 2026 Feature Summary — including the GA of OneLake Catalog Govern for admins, the OneLake Catalog Search API as an MCP tool, workspace tags going GA, DLP policies extending to structured data in OneLake, branched workspace with Git integration and selective branching, the new connection reference variable type, Fabric CLI v1.5 with one-command deployments, the Fabric Remote MCP server, OneLake File Explorer reaching GA, and the preview of Fabric Runtime 2.0 with Spark 4 and Delta Lake 4. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 322, recorded on April 8th, 2026, where John and Jason dig into the keynote announcements from FabCon Atlanta — including SharePoint list mirroring into OneLake, Excel-to-Delta table shortcuts, major CI/CD improvements like selective branching and the Fabric CLI, the new Database Hub giving you a single pane of glass across your entire database estate, and a brand new Planning workload built right into Fabric. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 321 recorded on March 3rd, 2026, where John and Jason break down the Microsoft Fabric February 2026 Feature Summary — including expanded workspace identity limits, notebook and Dataflow Gen2 improvements, new Data Factory capabilities, and enhancements across Real-Time Intelligence and the Fabric VS Code tooling. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 320 recorded on March 3rd, 2026, where John and Jason break down the Power BI February 2026 Feature Summary — including new DAX functions, improvements to Copilot prompts and Power BI apps, multiple-value clipboard support for slicers, and updates to visuals and error diagnostics in Power BI Desktop. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show