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Fabric Recent Update·Mar 26, 2026·Sindhu Bharadwaj

Upgrade your Synapse pipelines to Microsoft Fabric with confidence (Preview)

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If you haven’t already, check out Arun Ulag’s hero blog “FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single, complete platform” for a complete look at all of our FabCon and SQLCon announcements across both Fabric and our database offerings. 

To modernize workloads on Microsoft Fabric, bringing Synapse pipelines forward is a critical next step.

We’ll launch a built-in migration experience (Preview) soon to assess Synapse pipelines, check compatibility, and migrate supported pipelines to Fabric Data Factory.

What’s new

The new experience is designed to help you understand migration readiness before moving any workload.

Capabilities:

  • Assess pipeline readiness directly in your Synapse workspace.
  • Understand compatibility gaps at the pipeline and activity level.
  • Migrate supported pipelines into a Fabric workspace.
  • Plan next steps for items that need updates or are coming soon.

This approach helps you keep migrations intentional, transparent, and lower risk—especially when you’re planning phased validation.

Prerequisites

Before you start migrating, ensure the following requirements are met:

  • You have an existing Synapse workspace that contains pipelines.
  • You have access to a Microsoft Fabric tenant and a Fabric workspace.

How the migration experience works

The flow guides you through three stages: assessment, review, and migration.

  1. Run an assessment: In Azure Synapse Analytics, open the workspace you want to assess and from the Integrate menu option, select Migrate to Fabric (Preview), then choose Get started to evaluate pipelines and activities for migration readiness.

Screenshot showing Migrate to Fabric button and Get Started button to start migration assessment

Figure: Screenshot of the Synapse authoring canvas showing Migrate to Fabric (Preview) on the toolbar.

2. Review assessment results and select pipelines for migration: Each Synapse pipeline will be categorized as Ready, needs review, Coming soon, or Unsupported. You can also export a CSV report to support offline review and remediation planning.

Use these results to plan your migration strategy:

When you’re ready, select the Synapse pipelines you want to migrate to a Fabric workspace.

Screenshot of the assessment results page displaying pipeline readiness statuses and an Export option.

Figure: Screenshot of the assessment results showing pipeline readiness statuses and the Export option.

3. Review Connections and Migrate: Select a Fabric workspace for migrating your Synapse Analytics pipelines, then map Synapse linked services to Fabric connections.

If you have pre-created the connections in Fabric, you can choose them from the dropdown selection or create new Fabric connections from workspace settings.

For guidance on creating and managing connections in Fabric, explore Data source management.

Note: Pipelines migrate even if connections aren’t mapped—but the activities using those connections remain deactivated.

This ensures migrations are safe, controlled, and reversible.

Screenshot of the workspace selection and connection mapping step, showing Synapse linked services on one side and Fabric connections on the other.

Figure: Screenshot of the workspace selection and connection mapping step, showing Synapse linked services on one side and Fabric connections on the other.

After mapping your linked services to Fabric connections, select Confirm.

Screenshot showing successful migration of synapse pipelines

Figure: Screenshot showing successful migration of Synapse pipelines.

Pipelines migrate safely, with triggers disabled by default, so you remain in full control of execution.

Post-migration steps

  • Validate connections and credentials.
  • Run end-to-end tests to confirm behavior.
  • Reconfigure and enable triggers as needed.

These steps help you transition smoothly and operate natively in Fabric’s unified environment.

Resources

Explore Assess your Azure Data Factory and Synapse pipelines for migration to Fabric.

Submit your feedback on Fabric Ideas and join the conversation in the Fabric Community.

If you have questions or want to share your feedback, please leave your thoughts in the comment section!

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