Get your Microsoft Fabric environment ready for real-time analytics with this RTIIAD setup session. Manuel guides you through workspace configuration, data source connections, and ingestion pipelines.
Real-Time Intelligence in a Day – Setup is your essential first step toward working with live data in Microsoft Fabric. In this recorded session, Manuel Quintana walks you through everything you need to prepare your environment before the main RTIIAD event. You’ll learn how to configure your workspace, connect to real-time data sources, and set up ingestion pipelines that ensure a smooth experience for live analytics. This setup course focuses on best practices, security considerations, and troubleshooting tips so you can start the main training with a fully operational environment. By completing this session, you’ll be ready to focus on analysis and insights without being slowed down by configuration issues.
Course Outline ( Free Preview)
Module 01 - Class Setup Introduction
In this opening module, you’ll get an overview of what the RTIIAD setup course will cover and why each step is important for the main event. Manuel Quintana will walk through the objectives, required accounts, and resources you’ll need in place before beginning your real-time analytics journey. This session sets the expectations for the configuration process and ensures you’re prepared to follow along with the upcoming technical modules.
Module 02 - Provisioning Azure Event Hubs
Learn how to provision Azure Event Hubs, a key service for ingesting and managing streaming data in real time. Manuel will explain the role Event Hubs plays in the Real-Time Intelligence architecture and guide you through creating an Event Hub namespace, configuring access policies, and ensuring security best practices. By the end, you’ll have a fully provisioned Event Hub ready to receive data for analysis in Fabric.
Module 03 - Getting Your Fabric Capacity
This module focuses on setting up the necessary Fabric capacity so your workspace can handle real-time analytics workloads. You’ll learn about different capacity options, how to provision them through the Microsoft 365 admin portal, and how capacity impacts performance and scalability. Manuel will also share tips for monitoring and optimizing your capacity allocation for long-term efficiency.
Module 04 - Setting Up a Workspace and Configuring Notebooks
Finish your setup by creating a dedicated Fabric workspace and configuring a notebook for real-time data ingestion and processing. Manuel will walk through workspace creation, permissions management, and notebook initialization. You’ll see how to connect the notebook to your Event Hub and verify that data is flowing as expected—ensuring you’re ready for hands-on analysis during the main RTIIAD event.
Manuel Quintana is a Senior Consultant, Trainer, and Content Author at Pragmatic Works with more than 12 years of experience helping organizations modernize their data and analytics platforms. He specializes in Microsoft Fabric and works extensively across its end-to-end workloads, including data engineering, data warehousing, data integration, real-time analytics, and business intelligence. Manuel helps organizations design and implement scalable data solutions that transform raw data into actionable insights while enabling self-service analytics and AI-driven decision making.
In addition to his consulting work, Manuel has spent over a decade developing and delivering technical training for thousands of professionals worldwide. His expertise spans the Microsoft data platform, including T-SQL, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Azure data services, and Microsoft Fabric. Known for his practical, hands-on teaching style, Manuel specializes in helping teams adopt modern analytics architectures and get measurable business value from their Microsoft investments.
Manuel is also an accomplished author, having written books and training content focused on Power BI and the Microsoft Power Platform. Beyond client engagements, he actively contributes to the Microsoft data community through conference presentations, user groups, webinars, and technical events, where he frequently shares expertise on Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, modern data architecture, and analytics best practices. When he's not consulting, teaching, or creating content, Manuel enjoys spending time with his wife, Lindsey, and their two children, Parker and Sebastian.
