FabCon 2026: Fabric data agents are generally available
At FabCon and SQLCon 2026, Microsoft made Fabric data agents generally available, released the local Fabric MCP server as GA, put a remote MCP server into preview and made Fabric IQ ontologies reachable over MCP in preview.
A year after Microsoft turned AI skills into data agents, data agents are generally available. Microsoft announced it at FabCon and SQLCon 2026, which opened on March 18.
What was announced
- Fabric data agents, generally available.
- Fabric MCP servers. The local Fabric MCP server is generally available, and a remote Fabric MCP server is in public preview.
- Ontologies over MCP, in preview. Fabric IQ ontologies can be reached through an MCP server, so agents outside Fabric can read them.
- Direct Lake on OneLake is generally available.
- Graph in Fabric general availability is expected in the coming weeks, and Planning in Fabric IQ was announced.
Why it matters
General availability is the point where many companies allow a feature into production. Data agents in Fabric now clear that bar.
The bigger change is further down the list: ontologies over MCP. An ontology that only Fabric's own tools can read helps Fabric's own tools. One that any agent can reach through a standard protocol becomes the shared reference for the whole company. Every agent that reads it inherits its definitions, mistakes included.