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Fabric Administrator

Can manage all aspects of Microsoft Fabric including workspaces, capacities, and tenant-wide settings for analytics workloads.

Scope: Full administrative control over Microsoft Fabric including analytics, data engineering, and data science workloads

Permissions

  • Manage Microsoft Fabric tenant settings
  • Configure Fabric capacities
  • Manage Fabric workspaces
  • Configure data governance for Fabric
  • View Fabric usage metrics
  • Manage Fabric security settings

Common use cases

  • Fabric capacity management
  • Workspace governance
  • Data lakehouse administration
  • Tenant-wide policy configuration
  • Usage and adoption monitoring

Best practices

  • Implement workspace governance policies
  • Monitor capacity utilization
  • Configure appropriate data residency
  • Use domains for data organization
  • Enable sensitivity labels for data

Security considerations

  • Access to enterprise analytics data
  • Can configure data sharing policies
  • Controls data lake security settings
  • Monitor for data exfiltration risks

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