Updated advice if Microsoft certifications are your New Year’s resolution

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Happy New Year all and welcome to my updated advice if Microsoft certifications are your New Year’s resolution for 2026. Three years ago I published a post that covered advice if Microsoft certifications are your New Years resolution. However, a lot has changed since then. Including the introduction of Microsoft Fabric and the advancement of … Read more

Microsoft certification renewals are a good thing

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Whilst on a personal quest to get some renewals done I got reminded why Microsoft certification renewals are a good thing. I decided to do some certification renewals in bulk in order to free up more time for projects in 2026. Including the Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering certification as shown below. Taking the renewals is … Read more

Automate branching out to new workspace in Microsoft Fabric with GitHub

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This post covers how to automate branching out to new workspace in Microsoft Fabric with GitHub. Based on custom Branch Out to New Workspace scripts for Microsoft Fabric provided by Microsoft. Which you can find in the Fabric Toolbox GitHub repository provided by Microsoft. I covered implementing it in Azure DevOps in a previous post. … Read more

New commit to standalone branch feature in Microsoft Fabric

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Within this post I share the results of my initial tests of the new commit to standalone branch feature in Microsoft Fabric. Which you to create a fresh branch and commit your current changes to it in one single action. I decided to share my results since it is related to my previous post. Where … Read more

Get started with the Custom Branch Out to New Workspace scripts for Microsoft Fabric

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In this post I share how you can get started with the custom Branch Out to New Workspace scripts for Microsoft Fabric provided by Microsoft. Which you can find in the Fabric Toolbox GitHub repository provided by Microsoft. This offering allows you to automate the “Branch out to new workspace” functionality with Azure DevOps. Which … Read more

Authenticate as a service principal to run a Microsoft Fabric notebook using GitHub Actions

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In this post I cover an alternative way you can authenticate as a service principal to run a Microsoft Fabric notebook using GitHub Actions. By authenticating through the Fabric CLI (Command Line Interface) to run the notebook. Some time ago I covered how to authenticate as a service principal to run a Microsoft Fabric notebook … Read more

Deploy Microsoft Fabric items GitHub Action

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I am really excited about introducing the “Deploy Microsoft Fabric workspace items with fabric-cicd” GitHub Action in this post. Which appears to be the first Microsoft Fabric related GitHub Action to be made available in the GitHub Marketplace. This GitHub Action will save a lot of effort when looking to move Microsoft Fabric items from … Read more

Mystery of the fabric-cicd authentication that never was

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In this post I cover the mystery of the fabric-cicd authentication that never was. To help others who experience similar issues with fabric-cicd. Allow me to explain. A while back I encountered issues whilst testing some things for the Azure DevOps version of the FUAM deploymenator. Which is a FUAM deployment accelerator that I developed … Read more

Deploy a working Direct Lake semantic model with fabric-cicd and Fabric CLI

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In this post I show one way you can deploy a working Direct Lake semantic model with fabric-cicd and Fabric CLI as part of your Microsoft Fabric CI/CD strategy. To clarify, when I say working I mean that the Direct Lake semantic model points to the correct SQL analytics endpoint for a Lakehouse in the … Read more