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Fabric Migration Reference Pack

A migration evaluation pack for moving analytics workloads into Microsoft Fabric using official migration, OneLake, and Direct Lake guidance.

01. Microsoft Fabric MigrationMicrosoft Fabric official migration and platform guidanceStatus: guildbuild adaptedLast reviewed: 2026-05

Fabric Migration Reference Pack official-source architecture visual — Official Microsoft source visual used with attribution; GuildBuild adds the delivery checklist and evaluation lens below.

Official resources used

GuildBuild adaptation

GuildBuild turns the official migration and platform documentation into a buyer-ready assessment, cutover, and rollback artifact for mid-market teams.

What Microsoft provides

Fabric migration article index and platform capability overview.
OneLake and Direct Lake concepts for unified storage and semantic models.
Official framing for Fabric workloads and tenant-level architecture.

What GuildBuild adds

Current-state inventory structure for Synapse, Power BI Premium, SQL Server, and spreadsheet/report silos.
Phased cutover checklist with parallel-run, rollback, and acceptance gates.
Executive decision summary for migration scope, risks, and first workload selection.

Buyer evaluation checklist

Can we identify which workloads move first and which stay in parallel run?
Do we understand Direct Lake fit versus import or DirectQuery?
Are rollback, access, governance, and report validation gates explicit?

Implementation deliverables

Migration readiness checklist
Current-to-target mapping table
Parallel-run and rollback plan
First-workload selection scorecard

Technologies shown

Microsoft FabricOneLakeDirect LakePower BI semantic modelsFabric WarehouseLakehouse