Fabric & Power BI Essentials Blog Series

A series of short posts and articles with everything you need to know about building a data solution with Microsoft Fabric and Power BI for your organization. Written for IT leaders, data professionals, and business owners with some Power BI or reporting background but little or no experience with Fabric. Levels follow a college-course convention: 100 = foundational, 200 = intermediate/practical, 300 = advanced/at-scale.

Series Categories

  1. Getting Started & Tenant Foundations — what Fabric is, and standing up your first tenant
  2. Capacity Planning & Cost Management — choosing and managing the compute that powers everything
  3. Workspace Organization & Structure — organizing workspaces, domains, and who works where
  4. Storage & Lakehouse/Warehouse Architecture — OneLake and the medallion architecture
  5. Data Ingestion & ETL/ELT — getting data in and transforming it
  6. Data Modeling & Semantic Layer — shaping data for reporting
  7. Reporting & Analytics — delivering insight to IT-governed and self-service users
  8. AI-Enabled Co-Development & AI-Assisted Design — designing and building Fabric solutions with Copilot and AI assistants like Claude
  9. DevOps, CI/CD & Version Control — treating your Fabric solution like software
  10. Security & Governance — protecting and cataloging data
  11. Monitoring, Maintenance & Optimization — keeping the lights on
  12. Migration & Adoption — moving onto Fabric and driving real usage
  13. Advanced & At-Scale Topics — real-time, ML, and multi-team scale

Published Posts

1. Getting Started & Tenant Foundations

  1. What Is Microsoft Fabric? A Plain-English Overview for IT and Business Leaders (100)
  2. How Fabric Relates to Power BI Premium and Azure Synapse: Landscape and Migration Context (100)

2. Capacity Planning & Cost Management

3. Workspace Organization & Structure

4. Storage & Lakehouse/Warehouse Architecture

5. Data Ingestion & ETL/ELT

6. Data Modeling & Semantic Layer

7. Reporting & Analytics

8. AI-Enabled Co-Development & AI-Assisted Design

9. DevOps, CI/CD & Version Control

10. Security & Governance

11. Monitoring, Maintenance & Optimization

12. Migration & Adoption

13. Advanced & At-Scale Topics

This is the master table of contents for the series. Each topic will be linked to its published post as it goes live.