This week at the Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando, we announced the public preview of new features in ADF and released them bundled as ADF V2. You can go to the Azure portal now, select Data Factory and choose V1 or V2 from the Version picker in the new Factory blade.
The overview of the new service is in our docs page here and I’ve compiled a list of new scenarios, use cases and features enabled in ADF V2 here on SQL Pro mag.
Very exciting new features are enabled like flexible scheduling, control flow, on-demand Spark execution and SSIS packaged execution in the cloud.
To get started, I recommend the Quickstarts for Powershell and these tutorials: