Microsoft Fabric · Governance Domains
Domain Contributor
Contribute to a Fabric governance domain. Can assign their own workspaces to the domain and publish content into it, but cannot manage domain settings or other contributors.
Scope: Single Fabric governance domain - contribute without admin rights
Permissions
- Workspace association - Associate owned workspaces with the domain
- Domain content - Publish content to the domain
- View domain - See domain settings and membership (read-only)
Common use cases
- Workspace owners publishing data products to a shared domain
- Citizen data engineers contributing to a business unit's domain catalogue
Best practices
- Default role for workspace owners whose content belongs to a domain
- Use security groups for assignment so membership scales with team changes
- Pair with Workspace Admin training so contributors understand the cascading effect of domain assignment
Security considerations
- Domain Contributors can change the domain assignment of workspaces they admin - this affects sensitivity labels and certification policies inherited from the domain
- Promoting a workspace to a domain inherits any default sensitivity label configured for that domain - review label impact before assigning