Has anyone seen deleted Fabric Plans continue consuming capacity?
Hi all, I'm hoping someone else has run into this because I'm struggling to figure out whether this is expected behaviour or a bug in the Planning Preview workload. We recently created a Plan in Fabric Planning (Preview) to test the feature and later deleted it. The Plan is definitely gone from the workspace, but more than 24 hours later it still appears to be consuming capacity. When I look in the Capacity Metrics app, I can see three "Planner Session" entries under Background Operations. What's odd is that: None of them have a Start or End time. The User column contains GUIDs rather than actual user accounts. Each one is showing 86,400 seconds duration and around 100k CU consumption. If I pause and resume the capacity, the sessions come straight back. The other thing that's concerning is that the Planning workload's cumulative percentage keeps growing. At the moment it's sitting at around 3,694%, which is making up the majority of the cumulative utilization on our F4 capacity. A few questions for anyone who has been testing Planning: Is this normal behaviour for the 30-day Planning session model? Do Planner Sessions continue to exist after a Plan has been deleted? Has anyone seen these GUID-based sessions before? Is there any way to force the sessions to terminate or clean themselves up? Has Microsoft acknowledged this as a known issue in Preview? At first I thought this might just be a delay in cleanup, but it's now been over a week and the sessions are still there. The lack of Start/End times and the fact that they survive a capacity pause/resume makes me think something may be stuck in the backend. Would be interested to hear if anyone else has seen similar behaviour or if someone from the Fabric team can shed some light on it. Thanks!
Agents in Self Service Analytics
Does Microsoft have any AI agent capabilities beyond Data Agents and dashboards? We have several weekly forecasting and reporting tasks where we download data from dashboards into Excel, perform manual calculations and variance analysis, and then send the results to stakeholders. Ideally, I'd like to instruct an agent to: Pull the data automatically Perform the required analysis based on predefined rules Generate an Excel report Email the results to the appropriate users Is this something that can be done with Copilot Studio, or is Power Automate the primary solution? Curious to learn what others are using.
Fabric Apps + semantic models: Build permission required just to view a report?
Hi team, We've started building POCs of our existing workspace Power BI apps as the new Fabric Apps, to support requirements our current apps can't — mainly data annotation and "soft" writeback. Our semantic models are solid, so we've built the Fabric App on top of our existing semantic models (RLS and all), with a sidecar SQL database as the annotation/writeback vehicle. Currently, our semantic models sit on F64-backed workspaces, meaning our users don't need a per-user license (Pro/PPU). But it seems Fabric Apps work differently: the app appears to execute queries on behalf of the signed-in user via the XMLA endpoint, which requires Build permission on the semantic model — and Build in turn requires an end-user license (Pro/PPU). Am I missing something obvious, or is this simply how Fabric Apps are meant to work? There seem to be two existing paths for this exact problem: Fabric data agents let consumers query a semantic model with Read-only access, no Build required: https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/fbc_fabricupdatesblogs/update-to-required-permissions-for-semantic-models-in-fabric-data-agents/5172274 For multi-user applications on Premium/Fabric capacity, you already document that an app can use a service account or app identity to query on behalf of end users, without each one signing in individually (see "Multi-user application"): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/enterprise/powerbi/service-premium-connect-tools If either of those is viable, why does a Fabric App need each signed-in user to hold Build (and therefore a paid license) just to view a report? As it stands, requiring an end-user license for 1,000+ internal users who might open a report once a quarter is a hard sell. Thanks!
Fabric Data Agents
I’ve been reading about Fabric Data Agents and how they can connect to multiple data sources, such as Power BI semantic models, lakehouses, KQL databases, ontologies, and Microsoft Graph. From what I understand, we can provide instructions and example queries to help the agent choose the right source. However, I was wondering how this selection actually works when a user asks a question. Does the agent have an underlying context-resolution or semantic-routing mechanism to determine which data source, ontologies, and context are most relevant? If so, does anyone know how it works or have any resources that explain the process in more detail? Thanks !
Intermittent 'failure to start' messages from fabric pipelines
Over the last several weeks we have been seeing 'Job failed to start: timeout' messages on pipelines. I've reviewed capacity load, we are not seeing throttling or rejections. The pipeline is initiated and just never seems to start. Is anyone experiencing this? The message below is what we're seeing:
MS Fabric Trial capacity Extension 2026
Hi My Fabric Trial is due to expire in the next few days. I have not completed my evaluation and exploration of the platform. Is there a way to extend the trial to another 60 days ? The platform really is quite large with many features that should be evaluated . I am currently testing Fabric workloads. I have not yet got to the semantic models and power bi direct lake .I can't Activate my 60 days free fabric trial
I am unable to activate the 60-day Microsoft Fabric trial. Although my 60-day Power BI trial has been activated successfully, the Fabric trial is not available for my account. Whenever I try to activate it, I receive the message: “Your free Power BI trial gives you 60-day access to Power BI paid features. A Fabric trial isn't available for your account.” I have already created a Microsoft Entra ID tenant and am using an @onmicrosoft.com organizational account, but I am still unable to access the Fabric trial.
Datagateway stuck at "Failed to sign in. Please Verify your credentials and try again."
Im droping this here as i didnt see anywhere where this had been addressed. When trying to signin to the data gateway the app freezes and says "Failed to sign in. Please Verify your credentials and try again." The credentials are good and everything was fine prior to update. I got this after updateing the datagateway. The app freezes up and you have to force close. The work around is that you click signin options prior to entering email select these options and it will redirect you to your browser to login and wont lock up hope this someone
