Merge pull request #313750 from ssindhub/whats-new-update

Whats new update

Author: Carolyn135

articles/data-factory/how-to-upgrade-your-azure-data-factory-pipelines-to-fabric-data-factory.md

@@ -75,12 +75,10 @@ Select the pipelines you want to migrate.
 
 :::image type="content" source="media/how-to-assess-and-upgrade-your-azure-data-factory-pipelines-to-fabric/pick-pipelines-for-migration.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing the option to select pipelines for migration." lightbox="media/how-to-assess-and-upgrade-your-azure-data-factory-pipelines-to-fabric/pick-pipelines-for-migration.png":::
 
-> [!NOTE]
-> To preserve your existing Azure Data Factory folder structure, first recreate the same folders in your Fabric workspace. Then migrate pipelines folder by folder, selecting the corresponding Fabric folders during migration.
 
 ## Step 5: Map linked services to Fabric connections and complete migration
 
-Select **Review connections** to map Azure Data Factory linked services to Fabric connections.
+Select **Review connections** to map Azure Data Factory linked services to Fabric connections and then select **Confirm**.
 
 The migration experience attempts to automatically create connections for authentication methods that can be safely and reliably mapped from Azure Data Factory to Fabric’s managed identity and security model without requiring customer‑managed infrastructure or network configuration.
 
@@ -105,12 +103,11 @@ The migration experience attempts to automatically create connections for authen
 
 For other connections, either select an existing Fabric connection or create new connections by using the modern Get Data experience or from workspace settings. Then select **Confirm**.
 
-Next, select an existing folder or create a new folder to migrate your Azure Data Factory pipelines, and then select **Confirm**.
-This action starts the migration of the selected pipelines to the chosen folder in the Fabric workspace. A confirmation message appears when the migration completes successfully.
+This action starts the migration of the selected pipelines to the root folder in the Fabric workspace. A confirmation message appears when the migration completes successfully.
 
 :::image type="content" source="media/how-to-assess-and-upgrade-your-azure-data-factory-pipelines-to-fabric/migration-successfully-completed.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing successful completion of migration from Azure Data Factory to Fabric." lightbox="media/how-to-assess-and-upgrade-your-azure-data-factory-pipelines-to-fabric/migration-successfully-completed.png":::
 
-After the migration completes, go to the folder you selected in the Fabric workspace to view the migrated pipelines. You can open each pipeline to review and validate it before you continue with further configuration or testing.
+After migration completes, go to your Fabric workspace to review the migrated pipelines. Each pipeline is created under the workspace and prefixed with its source factory name. You can open each pipeline to review and validate it before you continue with further configuration or testing.
 
 :::image type="content" source="media/how-to-assess-and-upgrade-your-azure-data-factory-pipelines-to-fabric/validate-migration.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing the migration folder with the migrated pipelines for validation." lightbox="media/how-to-assess-and-upgrade-your-azure-data-factory-pipelines-to-fabric/validate-migration.png":::
 
@@ -156,7 +153,7 @@ The following items aren't supported in the UX-based migration experience today.
 | | Marketing and finance software‑as‑a‑service connectors (HubSpot, Google Ads, QuickBooks, Shopify, Xero) | Not supported today. |
 | **Triggers and orchestration** | Custom event triggers | Custom event triggers can't be migrated. |
 | | Storage event triggers | Support is coming soon. |
-| | Tumbling window triggers | Interval‑based scheduling support is coming soon. Watermark and backfill workloads must be redesigned. |
+| | Tumbling window triggers | Known as Interval‑based scheduling in Fabric. Watermark and backfill workloads must be redesigned. |
 | | Chaining or dependency triggers | Chaining and dependency trigger semantics aren't supported yet. |
 | **Security and authentication** | Advanced configurations (customer‑managed keys (CMK), dual tokens, federated identity credential (FIC) flows) | Unsupported workspace identity or service principal authentication models don't migrate. |
 | | Certificate‑based authentication (Web activity) | Unsupported and requires redesign. |

articles/data-factory/how-to-upgrade-your-azure-synapse-analytics-pipelines-to-fabric-data-factory.md

@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ Before you start:
 
 - You have an **Azure Synapse Analytics workspace** that contains pipelines.
 - You have access to a **Microsoft Fabric tenant** and a **Fabric workspace**.
-- To preserve your folder structure, **create the same folders in your Fabric workspace first**, then migrate pipelines one folder at a time.
 
 ## Migrate Spark items to Fabric first
 

articles/data-factory/whats-new.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ author: pennyzhou-msft
 ms.author: xupzhou
 ms.topic: overview
 ms.custom: references_regions
-ms.date: 09/25/2024
+ms.date: 03/26/2026
 ---
 
 # What's new in Azure Data Factory
@@ -18,19 +18,59 @@ Azure Data Factory is improved on an ongoing basis. To stay up to date with the
 - Deprecated functionality.
 - Plans for changes.
 
-This page is updated monthly, so revisit it regularly.  For older months' updates, refer to the [What's new archive](whats-new-archive.md).
+For older months' updates, refer to the [What's new archive](whats-new-archive.md).
 
 Check out our [What's New video archive](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt4mCx89QIGS1rQlNt2-7iuHHAKSomVLv) for all of our monthly update videos.
 
 >[!TIP]
 >Also check [what's new for Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric](/fabric/fundamentals/whats-new?toc=%2Ffabric%2Fdata-factory%2Ftoc.json#data-factory-in-microsoft-fabric)
 
+## March 2026
+
+### Migration
+- Upgrading your Azure Data Factory pipelines to Fabric. [Learn more](how-to-upgrade-your-azure-data-factory-pipelines-to-fabric-data-factory.md).
+- Upgrading your Azure Synapse Analytics pipelines to Fabric. [Learn more](how-to-upgrade-your-azure-synapse-analytics-pipelines-to-fabric-data-factory.md).
+
+## January 2026
+
+### Migration
+Assessing your Azure Data Factory and Synapse pipelines for migration to Fabric. [Learn more](how-to-assess-your-azure-data-factory-to-fabric-data-factory-migration.md).
+
+## December 2025
+
+### Data movement
+
+HDInsight Hive activity now supports Managed Identity authentication to ADLS Gen2 Storage accounts for Bring Your Own Compute. [Learn more](compute-linked-services.md).
+
+## October 2025
+
+### Data movement
+
+HDInsight Hive activity now supports Managed Identity authentication to ADLS Gen2 Storage accounts for Bring Your Own Compute. [Learn more](compute-linked-services.md).
+
+## August 2025
+
+### Data flow
+
+We're updating Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flows to use to use Spark 3.4.
+
 ## August 2024
 
-## Data movement
+### Data movement
+
+HDInsight On-demand Spark activity now supports Managed Identity authentication. [Learn more](connector-azure-table-storage.md).
+
+## June 2025
+
+### Data movement
+
+Azure Data Factory Connector Upgrade Advisor now supports additional connectors. [Learn more](connector-upgrade-advisor.md).
+
+## May 2025
+
+### Migration
 
-- Azure Table Storage connector now supports two more authentication types: system-assigned managed identity authentication and user-assigned managed identity authentication. [Learn more](connector-azure-table-storage.md)
-- Azure Files connector now supports two more authentication types: system-assigned managed identity authentication and user-assigned managed identity authentication. [Learn more](connector-azure-file-storage.md)
+Mounting your Azure Data Factory in Fabric is now generally available. [Learn more](/fabric/data-factory/tutorial-bring-azure-data-factory-to-fabric).
 
 ## June 2024