HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!! I hope you all had a wonderful break. We are back with a bang already with the recording from our call today reviewing the latest Product and Community updates. 👋 Welcome to the fifth Cross-Community Monthly Update! Each month, I'll be populating this post, with updates from all the Communities/ Channels I manage, PLUS updates from the Fabric Product Team from the recent December 2025 Product Updates - new features. I hear from lots of people that it's difficult to keep up-to-date with Fabric and all the constant changes, so hopefully this will serve as a useful resource for tracking what's changing, and what's important. As always, your feedback is very welcome! 🟩 Learn Microsoft Fabric Community Updates - Well done to everyone that passed their DP-600 or DP-700 exam this month - there are far too many of you to call out individuals - but if you passed, well done! A great way to round off the year. - What to expect in 2026? I'll continue to support and grow the free community in 2026 - doing my best to answer questions and provide support (for free), to as many people as I have the time to support! Thanks for being a part of it and contributing in 2025. 🟦 Fabric Dojo Community Updates for this month - We developed TWO real-world projects in the Dojo in Q4 2025, showcasing two approaches to developing a Fabric Data Platform (for a real-world client). - What to expect in 2026? We will continue to develop and maintain the most comprehensive Fabric Data Engineering education available. - We'll be welcoming @Rui Carvalho - he's a Data Engineer who spends a lot of his time optimizing Spark jobs, and he's an awesome teacher. He'll be delivering a series of tutorials to take your Spark skills to the next-level. - We also have Microsoft MVP @Alexandru Badiu delivering a series on User Data Functions & Translytical Taskflows in Fabric - that is something you won't want to miss, as TTFs is changing how companies are using Fabric/ Power BI in a considerable way (building app-like experiences, where the user can write data back to a Fabric SQL database). - I'll be delivering new content focusing on AI-powered workflows for Fabric Data Engineers - the time is right - it's changing how we work in quite big ways, so let's get on top of it and learn how it can help us build better engineering solutions in Fabric.

Welcome to all the new joiners that joined our community this week! 👇 Feel free to introduce yourself - telling us a little more about yourself and why you joined 👇 We're a friendly bunch and happy to help, and share our passion and knowledge for Microsoft Fabric! --Will