🎙️ Fabric Insider Ep. 8 — Fabric MCP Servers, CLI & AI Agents | Hasan Abo-Shally | Microsoft Fabric

MCP Servers, Fabric CLI, GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT — and how they all work together to let AI agents interact with Microsoft Fabric natively. This is one of the most exciting and demo-packed episodes in the Fabric Insider series yet. In this episode of Fabric Insider, I sit down with Hasan Abo-Shally — Product Manager for Fabric MCP Servers and CLI at Microsoft — for a conversation that changes how you think about what AI agents can do inside Microsoft Fabric. We cover everything from what MCP actually is and why it matters, to live demos of GitHub Copilot managing Fabric workspaces, creating lakehouses, and automating workflows — all through natural language prompts. No clicking. No portal. Just prompts. 📌 What we cover in this episode: 🔌 What is an MCP Server? Is it different from an API? Why should you care? 🤖 Copilot vs Claude vs ChatGPT — does it matter which AI agent you use with Fabric MCP? 🖥️ Local MCP Server vs Core (Remote) MCP Server — what is the difference and when to use each? ⌨️ What is the Fabric CLI and what can it do? 🔐 What permissions do you need to run Fabric MCP Servers and CLI? 🎯 Real-world use case scenarios for Fabric CLI — live demos 🗺️ What is new and coming for Fabric MCP Servers? 👑 One MCP Server to rule them all — is that the direction? 📊 What about Power BI-only users? What MCP options exist for them? 🎙️ Fabric Insider Series — direct conversations with Microsoft product team members on what is new, what is coming, and what matters most in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. 🔗 Hasan Abo-Shally on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hasan-abo-shally/ 📺 Full Fabric Insider Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXQvYI7QV6f8vUxtlFuGzQk-tYj3uOTn 🎧 Fabric Insider on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4eJrCr5UOWZ7ggmrVUce6l?si=Jx18sgdaScCgR3P1oDz-dw 📚 Fabric Insider Blog Series: https://radacad.com/category/fabric-insider-2026/ 💡 Power BI / Fabric Ideas: https://ideas.fabric.microsoft.com 💬 Microsoft Fabric Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftFabric/ 📌 Previous Fabric Insider Episodes: 🎙️ Ep. 1 — Wilson Lee: Fabric Mirroring, Copy Job & SAP Integration 🎙️ Ep. 2 — Zoe Douglas: Power BI Visualization Updates & Roadmap 🎙️ Ep. 3 — Miguel Escobar: Power Query, Dataflows & What's Next 🎙️ Ep. 4 — Santhosh Kumar Ravindran: Fabric Spark Performance & Custom Live Pools 🎙️ Ep. 5 — Christian Wade: What's Hot and New for Power BI Semantic Models 🎙️ Ep. 6 — Yitzhak Kesselman: Real-Time Intelligence & Fabric IQ 🎙️ Ep. 7 — Rie Merritt: Everything About the Microsoft MVP Program 📖 Related resources on RADACAD: 🔗 RADACAD Blog: https://radacad.com/blog/ 🔗 Microsoft Fabric Glossary: https://radacad.com/microsoft-fabric-glossary/ 🔗 What is Microsoft Fabric: https://radacad.com/what-is-microsoft-fabric/ 🌐 RADACAD Website: https://radacad.com 🔗 Corporate Training: https://radacad.com/corporate-training/ 🔗 Power BI Training: https://radacad.com/power-bi-training/ 🔗 Microsoft Fabric Training: https://radacad.com/microsoft-fabric-training/ #MicrosoftFabric #FabricMCP #MCPServer #FabricCLI #GitHubCopilot #AIAgents #FabricInsider #PowerBI #DataEngineering #AgenticAI #FabricAnalytics #BusinessIntelligence #MicrosoftAI #HassanAboShally #FabricDeveloper