Migration of pipelines from Azure Synapse to Microsoft Fabric

[gautamch7070]

We are currently using Azure Synapse as a Data Engineering platform which has pipelines, dataflows, linked services and datasets. We want to directly migrate all the artifacts from Azure Synapse workspace over to Microsoft Fabric. We have gone through several documents available on the internet, we have asked LLMs as well for an answer, includeing Microsoft official docs. We currently understand that we will have to go ahead and create those Synapse pipelines manually in Fabric.

However, we see that in the workspace, under New Items, we do have an option to mount Azure Data Factory directly, can we do something similar with Azure Synapse Analytics workspace ? or do you have any similar solution for making it super easy for us to migrate everything from Synapse to Fabric ?

[v-hashadapu]

Hi @gautamch7070 , Hope you're doing fine. Can you confirm if the problem is solved or still persists? Sharing your details will help others in the community.

[v-hashadapu]

Hi @gautamch7070 , Hope you're doing okay! May we know if it worked for you, or are you still experiencing difficulties? Let us know — your feedback can really help others in the same situation.

[v-hashadapu]

Hi @gautamch7070 , Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Community Forum.

We find the answer shared by @rohit1991  is appropriate. Can you please confirm if the solution worked for you. It will help others with similar issues find the answer easily.

Thank you @rohit1991  for your valuable response.

[rohit1991 · Accepted solution]

Hi @gautamch7070 

Currently, there is no direct migration option to move Azure Synapse pipelines into Microsoft Fabric. Unlike Azure Data Factory, you cannot mount or import an entire Synapse workspace. The pipelines need to be recreated manually inside Fabric’s Data Factory experience.

The good part is that you don’t have to start from zero-you can still reuse your datasets, linked services, dataflows, SQL scripts, and notebooks by connecting them to Fabric resources. What changes is mainly the pipeline orchestration layer, which must be rebuilt.

Microsoft has confirmed in the documentation that Synapse artifacts are not automatically migrated, but they are working on improving migration features. It’s worth keeping an eye on the Fabric roadmap and monthly updates, since more migration tools may be added in the future.

So for now:

• Pipelines = manual rebuild

• Dataflows, datasets, and scripts = can be reused

• Migration tool = not yet available