Microsoft Fabric adds support for AI agents built in Copilot Studio
Fabric now lets users create agents in Copilot Studio that call Fabric Data Agents through the Model Context Protocol. Queries from Microsoft 365 Copilot in Teams or Outlook are routed to these agents for answers drawn from Fabric data. The setup also ties into Data Activator for real-time alerts and OneLake shortcuts for external sources such as Azure Databricks or Snowflake.
Until now most mid-market teams still pulled data into Excel files or ran undocumented Power Query steps that took hours to refresh. Any conversational layer sat on top of that mess and produced unreliable answers. The new integration changes nothing for teams without a clean Fabric model. It simply makes the gap between messy inherited reports and usable AI agents more obvious and expensive to ignore.
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Skip the agent demos entirely. Pick the worst 200-step query in your current workspace, cut it down to under 30 steps this week, and document every transformation so a future agent could actually trust the output.
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