Microsoft Fabric Blog announces the general availability of Copy Job Activity in Data Factory pipelines, highlighting new capabilities for automating and orchestrating data movement workflows.

Copy Job Activity Now Generally Available in Microsoft Fabric Data Factory Pipelines

Overview

Microsoft Fabric has announced the general availability of the Copy Job Activity in Data Factory pipelines—a significant improvement for users needing to move and orchestrate data across various sources and destinations efficiently.

What is Copy Job Activity?

  • Copy Job Activity lets users embed Copy jobs directly inside Data Factory pipelines, treating them as native activities.
  • Copy jobs were previously managed separately and offered a lightweight, fast approach for moving data. Now, this experience is integrated within pipeline orchestration, supporting both prototyping and complex, automated workflows.

Key Features

  • No-code simplicity: Users can select or create Copy jobs from the pipeline canvas without writing code.
  • Flexible orchestration: Chain Copy jobs with activities like notebooks, dataflows, conditional branches, or Power BI refresh—ideal for advanced workflow scenarios and medallion architecture implementations.
  • Email integration: Pair Copy Job Activity with Outlook Activity for automated notifications and status updates from your pipelines.
  • Comprehensive data movement: Supports batch and incremental copy with change data capture (CDC), including monitoring via built-in telemetry.
  • Reuse and reliability: Logic previously defined in Copy jobs is reusable within pipelines, while new options enable conditional execution, chaining, and retry logic.

Usage Scenarios

  • Automating periodic data ingestion from multiple sources.
  • Chaining data movement with downstream analytics or reporting tasks.
  • Triggering workflows that involve notifications or multiple delivery styles (bulk, incremental, CDC replication).

Further Resources

Conclusion

Whether you are building quick prototypes or orchestrating complex data pipelines, Copy Job Activity offers a powerful and simplified way to manage data movement within Microsoft Fabric Data Factory.

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