PSFramework on Rob Sewell (aka SQL DBA With A Beard)

MicrosoftFabricMgmt: Structured Logging with PSFramework

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

If you have ever come back to a script the next morning and thought “what on earth happened last night?”, you understand why logging matters. Write-Host and Write-Verbose are fine for interactive use, but in automation — scheduled tasks, CI/CD pipelines, long-running jobs — you need something more structured. Something you can query, filter, and persist across sessions, something that you can provide to your team or support or auditors.

MicrosoftFabricMgmt: Goodbye GUIDs - Intelligent Output and Smart Caching

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

When you work with a REST API that returns GUIDs for everything, human readability goes out the window. You run a query like this in PowerShell to get your Fabric lakehouses and you get something like this returned

Humans don’t work with GUIDs. We want names.

Which workspace is 948d3445-54a5-4c2a-85e7-2c3d30933992? Which capacity? Who knows — go look it up. Multiply that by fifty items across ten workspaces and you have a frustrating afternoon ahead of you.

Introducing MicrosoftFabricMgmt: Managing Microsoft Fabric with PowerShell

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

If you have been following this blog for a while, you will know that I am a huge fan of using PowerShell to manage and automate things. SQL Server, dbatools, dbachecks — automating the boring stuff so we can spend time on the interesting stuff.

I have been introducing the Microsoft fabric-toolbox — covering the toolbox itself, FUAM, and FCA. All excellent tools. But there is one item in the toolbox that I have been personally involved in building, and it is the one I am most excited to write about.