5-Day Commercial CoE Workshop¶

For regulated commercial verticals waiting for Fabric Gov: healthcare (HIPAA), regional banks (sovereignty), pharma (FDA Part 11), defense industrial base running commercial Azure (non-ITAR workloads). Focus: Commercial Azure boundary; UC managed catalog; Foundry Agent Service.

Same 5-day structure as the Federal CoE Workshop; content tuned to commercial concerns.

What differs vs Federal CoE¶

Topic	Federal CoE	Commercial CoE
Boundary content	Per-boundary `.bicepparam` walkthrough (GCC-H / IL5)	Commercial baseline; UC managed primary
Compliance focus	FedRAMP H / IL4 / IL5 / ITAR / CMMC	HIPAA / SOC 2 / PCI / GDPR / FDA Part 11
Forward-migration target	Fabric Gov (`Forecasted`)	Fabric Commercial (already GA today)
Agent orchestration	MAF + AOAI direct (Gov fallback)	Foundry Agent Service (GA Mar 2026)
Catalog	Purview-primary in Gov	UC managed + Purview overlay
Defender AI	Sentinel workaround (Gov)	Defender for Cloud AI Threat Protection (Commercial)
Network	NSG egress allow-list + ER/VPN	Public + private mix per customer policy
Workshop materials	Federal-mission framing	Generic-industry framing

Same 5-day shape¶

Day 1 — Foundation & Deploy¶

Loom overview (commercial framing)
Customer environment readiness (Azure Commercial subs)
azd up install
Loom Setup Wizard live
Validation

Day 2 — Ingest & Mirroring & Catalog¶

Same ingest patterns
Mirroring Engine
UC managed catalog walkthrough (vs Purview-primary in Gov)
Workspace RBAC + UC privileges

Day 3 — Transform & Lakehouse & Warehouse¶

Databricks notebooks + dbt
Medallion on customer workload
Databricks SQL Warehouse (Commercial only; uses Photon)
KQL on real-time data

Day 4 — BI & AI & Direct Lake & Data Agents¶

Power BI Desktop + TMDL
Direct-Lake-Shim
Data Agents authoring + Foundry Agent Service integration
Loom Copilot tour

Day 5 — Operate & Govern & Forward-Migrate¶

Monitoring + Cost
DR
Forward migration to Fabric Commercial (already GA — can be demonstrated live, not just planned)
CoE charter
Exec readout

Forward migration to Fabric Commercial (Day 5 — unique to commercial)¶

Unlike federal where Fabric is Forecasted, commercial customers can forward-migrate today to Fabric Commercial: - Live demo of fiab-migrate execute against a real Fabric Commercial workspace - OneLake shortcut creation - Side-by-side Loom + Fabric Commercial query comparison - Customer leaves Day 5 with a deployed Fabric workspace alongside Loom

This is a major differentiator vs the Federal CoE workshop where forward migration is planning-only.

Day-by-day curriculum¶

Each day ships a facilitator guide and a participant lab guide (hands-on against the live Loom from Day 1) in one page. Content is tuned to commercial concerns; Day 5 forward-migrates live to Fabric Commercial (GA):

Day 1 — Foundation & Deploy

Commercial param, azd up, UC managed catalog, Console health.
Day 2 — Ingest & Mirroring & Catalog

Ingest synthetic data, mirrored database, UC managed + Purview overlay.
Day 3 — Transform & Lakehouse & Warehouse

Medallion, dbt + Git, Databricks SQL Warehouse (Photon), KQL over ADX.
Day 4 — BI & AI & Direct Lake & Data Agents

Semantic model + report, Direct-Lake-Shim, Data Agents on Foundry (GA).
Day 5 — Operate & Govern & Forward-Migrate

Monitoring, cost, DR, live Fabric Commercial migration, CoE charter.

Workshop materials¶

Datasets — CUI-safe synthetic (IoT, financial, clinical)
CoE charter template
Pre-workshop readiness checklist
Post-workshop survey + outcome metrics
Slide decks: make loom-decks renders each day page to PPTX/PDF (Marp)

Audience differences¶

Role	Federal CoE	Commercial CoE
ATO / compliance officer	Day 1, 5	Optional — replace with Risk + Audit lead
Federal CSU	Facilitator	Replace with Commercial CSU
Microsoft federal account team	Day 1, 5	Replace with Microsoft commercial enterprise team
Defense industrial base specialist	Sometimes	Replace with vertical-specific (healthcare / FSI / pharma)

When to use Commercial CoE vs Federal CoE¶

Customer	Workshop
Federal civilian, DoD, IC, state + local	Federal CoE
Federal contractor on Azure Government	Federal CoE
Hospital / health system on commercial Azure (HIPAA)	Commercial CoE
Regional bank on commercial Azure (sovereignty preference)	Commercial CoE
Pharma (FDA Part 11)	Commercial CoE
Defense industrial base on commercial Azure (non-ITAR)	Commercial CoE
Customer with both estates (hybrid)	Federal CoE primary; Commercial CoE follow-up

Cost¶

Same as Federal CoE — workshop delivery by Microsoft commercial enterprise team + CSU resources; customer provides venue + time; underlying Azure consumption customer-paid.