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Moving your Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse pipelines to Fabric Data Factory is now fast, easy, and free! We've announced the New migration experience from Azure Data Factory to Fabric (Preview) features that are built directly into ADF and Synapse making it dramatically easier to modernize existing pipelines by moving them to Fabric Data Factory.
Figure: Initiate the ADF Migration Tool from your pipeline.
As more organizations standardize on Microsoft Fabric for end‑to‑end analytics, upgrading existing ADF and Synapse workloads is a critical step. This new migration experience removes the friction of manual migration by guiding you through a clear, assessment‑first migration flow that helps you understand readiness, compatibility, and next steps before moving any workloads. This migration experience is integrated directly into the familiar ADF authoring environment, allowing you to assess pipelines, identify supported and unsupported activities, and confidently plan modernization with full visibility and control.
Once you’re ready, the migration experience walks you end‑to‑end through moving pipelines into Fabric Data Factory. In just a few steps, ADF will automatically mount your factory to a Fabric workspace, migrate selected pipelines, and automatically convert ADF linked services into first‑class Fabric connections. Pipelines are migrated safely with triggers disabled by default, ensuring you remain in full control as you validate and test in Fabric. From there, you can take advantage of Fabric‑native capabilities—such as variable libraries, modern orchestration, and unified monitoring—while preserving your existing pipeline logic. The result is a predictable, low‑risk path to modernization that helps teams move faster without disrupting mission‑critical data integration workloads.
Why should I migrate to Fabric Data Factory?
Migrating to Fabric Data Factory isn’t just about moving pipelines—it’s about modernizing your data integration platform to unlock everything Fabric has to offer. Fabric brings together orchestration, data movement, transformation, analytics, and AI in a single, unified environment built on OneLake, reducing architectural complexity while accelerating insights. With Fabric, teams can move beyond traditional ETL patterns and take advantage of AI‑powered experiences, open orchestration, and native integration across the analytics stack.After you select Migrate, you will immediately modernize your existing ADF pipelines inside of Fabric, unlocking Copilot, Copy Job, Mirroring, dbt, Airflow Job, OneLake—no pipeline rewrites required!