Microsoft on Databricks

What Microsoft publishes about Databricks: partnership news, Azure Databricks guidance, and Fabric interoperability. Filtered and accumulated, newest first within each run.

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• Tech Community — https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/s/gxcuf89792/rss/board?board.id=Azure-Databricks
• Microsoft Source — https://news.microsoft.com/source/?s=databricks&feed=rss2
• Microsoft blog — https://blogs.microsoft.com/?s=databricks&feed=rss2
• Azure blog — https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/product/azure-databricks/feed/
• Fabric blog — https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-fabric/blog/feed/

Each holds 10 to 20 items, so this file appends rather than replaces. The two ?s=databricks search feeds carry history; the rest are a rolling window.

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• Databricks and Microsoft expand partnership to help enterprises bring business context to enterprise AI — Microsoft Source · Jul 23, 2026
• Azure Databricks delivers proven business value — Azure blog · Jul 15, 2026 Microsoft Azure Databricks delivers the first-party advantage of Databricks on Microsoft—and for customers, that advantage shows up as real, measurable value. It is the same Databricks platform your teams already know, co-engineered with Microsoft and delivere
• Azure Databricks at Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026: updates and new announcements — Tech Community · Jun 16, 2026 Databricks Data + AI Summit brings together the global data and AI community in San Francisco to share product news, technical breakthroughs, and customer stories. This year, as usual, we have a lot of Azure Databricks announcements, a strong presence across t
• Introducing Lakeflow Connect Free Tier, now available on Azure Databricks — Tech Community · Mar 18, 2026 We're excited to introduce the Lakeflow Connect Free Tier on Azure Databricks, so you can easily bring your enterprise data into your lakehouse to build analytics and AI applications faster. Modern applications require reliable access to operational data, espe
• Near–Real-Time CDC to Delta Lake for BI and ML with Lakeflow on Azure Databricks — Tech Community · Mar 18, 2026 The Challenge: Too Many Tools, Not Enough Clarity Modern data teams on Azure often stitch together separate orchestrators, custom streaming consumers, hand-rolled transformation notebooks, and third-party connectors — each with its own monitoring UI, credentia
• Azure Databricks Lakebase is now generally available — Tech Community · Mar 03, 2026 Modern applications are built on real-time, intelligent, and increasingly powered by AI agents that need fast, reliable access to operational data—without sacrificing governance, scale, or simplicity. To solve for this, Azure Databricks Lakebase introduces a s
• Serverless Workspaces are generally available in Azure Databricks — Tech Community · Feb 02, 2026 Recently, we announced that Serverless Workspaces in public preview. Today, we are excited to share that Serverless Workspaces are generally available in Azure Databricks. Azure Databricks now offers two workspace models: Serverless and Classic. With Serverles
• Serverless Workspaces are live in Azure Databricks — Tech Community · Dec 02, 2025 As customers continue to deploy large scale data and AI projects in Azure Databricks, the complexity of deploying and managing these increases. To help you with this, we’re excited to announce the public preview of Serverless workspaces in Azure Databricks. Wi
• Azure Databricks Genie integration with Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry is now live! — Tech Community · Nov 18, 2025 This blog was co-authored by Toussaint Webb, Databricks We’re excited to announce the Public Preview availability of AI/BI Genie in Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry via MCP. This makes it easier than ever for organizations to unlock and scale the
• SAP Business Data Cloud Connect with Azure Databricks is now generally available — Tech Community · Oct 15, 2025 We are excited to share that SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) Connect for Azure Databricks is generally available. With this announcement, Azure Databricks customers like you, can connect your SAP BDC environment to your existing Azure Databricks instance – w
• General Availability: Automatic Identity Management (AIM) for Entra ID on Azure Databricks — Tech Community · Sep 10, 2025 In February, we announced that Automatic Identity Management in public preview and loved to hear your overwhelmingly positive feedback. Prior to public preview, you either had to set up an Entra Enterprise Application or involve an Azure Databricks account adm
• Closing the loop: Interactive write-back from Power BI to Azure Databricks — Tech Community · Aug 15, 2025 This is a collaborative post from Microsoft and Databricks. We thank Toussaint Webb, Product Manager at Databricks, for his contributions. We're excited to announce that the Azure Databricks connector for Power Platform is now Generally Available. With this in
• Databricks runs best on Azure — Azure blog · Jul 15, 2025 Choosing Azure Databricks can streamline your entire data lifecycle within a single, scalable environment.
• Announcing the Azure Databricks connector in Power Platform — Tech Community · Jun 11, 2025 We are ecstatic to announce the public preview of the Azure Databricks Connector for Power Platform. This native connector is specifically for Power Apps, Power Automation, and Copilot Studio within Power Platform and enables seamless, single click connection.
• Announcing the availability of Azure Databricks connector in Azure AI Foundry — Tech Community · May 19, 2025 At Microsoft, Databricks Data Intelligence Platform is available as a fully managed, native, first party Data and AI solution called Azure Databricks. This makes Azure the optimal cloud for running Databricks workloads. Because of our unique partnership, we ca
• Announcing the availability of Azure Databricks connector in Azure AI Foundry — Tech Community · May 19, 2025 At Microsoft, Databricks Data Intelligence Platform is available as a fully managed, native, first party Data and AI solution called Azure Databricks. This makes Azure the optimal cloud for running Databricks workloads. Because of our unique partnership, we ca
• Upskill your team on Azure Databricks with an on-demand webinar and Microsoft Learn — Azure blog · Apr 17, 2025 In a data-driven world, you need an efficient way to harness your data for actionable insights and gain a competitive edge. Azure Databricks is a powerful, unified analytics and AI platform that streamlines the entire AI project lifecycle—from rapid experiment
• Introducing the Llama 4 herd in Azure AI Foundry and Azure Databricks — Microsoft Source · Apr 07, 2025
• Llama 4 is now available in Azure Databricks — Tech Community · Apr 07, 2025 We are excited to announce the availability of Meta's Llama 4 in Azure Databricks. As you know, enterprises all over the world already use Llama models in Azure Databricks to power AI enterprise agents, workflows, and applications. Now with Llama 4 and Azure D
• Power BI & Azure Databricks: Smarter Refreshes, Less Hassle — Tech Community · Mar 31, 2025 We are excited to extend the deep integration between Azure Databricks and Microsoft Power BI with the Public Preview of the Power BI task type in Azure Databricks Workflows. This new capability allows users to update and refresh Power BI semantic models direc
• Anthropic State-of-the-Art Models Available to Azure Databricks Customers — Tech Community · Mar 27, 2025 Our customers now have greater model choices with the arrival of Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet in Azure Databricks. Databricks is announcing a partnership with Anthropic to integrate their state-of-the-art models into Databricks Data Intelligence Platform as a n
• Part 2: Performance Configurations for Connecting PBI to a Private Link ADB Workspace — Tech Community · Mar 24, 2025 This blog was written in conjunction with Leo Furlong, Lead Solutions Architect at Databricks. In Part 1, we discussed networking options for connecting Power BI to an Azure Databricks workspace with a Public Endpoint protected with a workspace IP Access List.
• 6 critical phases to prepare for a successful Azure Databricks migration — Tech Community · Mar 20, 2025 As organizations adopt advanced analytics and AI to drive decision-making, moving data applications to Azure Databricks has become a strategic and significant endeavor. This transition requires careful planning and execution to succeed. Based on numerous succe
• Part 1: Power BI Service Connections to Azure Databricks with Private Networking — Tech Community · Feb 21, 2025 This blog was written in conjunction with Leo Furlong, Lead Solutions Architect at Databricks. Enhancing Security and Connectivity: Azure Databricks SQL, Unity Catalog, and Power BI Integration The combination of Azure Databricks SQL, Unity Catalog, and Power
• Workarounds for Maven Json-smart 2.5.2 Release Breaking Azure Databricks Job Dependencies — Tech Community · Feb 12, 2025 A recent Maven library release corrupted json-smart’s central metadata, ended up removing all previous versions of Maven library other than 2.5.2. This results in DBR ivy resolution failures if customers’ job has transitive dependency on previous version of js
• Microsoft announces Azure Databricks powered by Apache® Spark, new AI, IoT and machine learning tools for developers — Microsoft Source · Nov 15, 2017 New tools to help increase developer productivity and simplify app development for intelligent cloud and edge, across devices, platforms or data sources NEW YORK — Nov. 15, 2017 — Wednesday at Connect(); 2017, Microsoft Corp.’s annual event for professional de