Manage Fabric security

• 5 minutes

If you already use Power BI in your organization, then Fabric security should feel familiar. Your role as an admin is to manage security for the Fabric environment, including managing users and groups, and how users interact with Fabric in terms of sharing and distribution of content.

Manage users: assign and manage licenses

User licenses control the level of user access and functionality within the Fabric environment. Administrators ensure licensed users have the access they need to data and analytics to do their jobs effectively. They also limit access to sensitive data and ensure compliance with data protection laws and regulations.

Managing licenses allows administrators to monitor and control costs by ensuring that licenses are allocated efficiently and only to users who need them. This can help to prevent unnecessary expenses and ensure that the organization is utilizing its resources effectively.

Having the appropriate procedures in place to assign and manage licenses helps to control access to data and analytics, ensure compliance with regulations, and optimize costs.

License management for Fabric is handled in the Microsoft 365 admin center. For more information about managing licenses, see Assign licenses to users.

Manage items and sharing

As an admin, you can manage how users interact with Fabric in terms of sharing and distribution of content. You can manage how users share content with others, and how they distribute content to others. You can also manage how users interact with items, such as data warehouses, data pipelines, datasets, reports, and dashboards.

Items in workspaces are best distributed through a workspace app or the workspace directly. Granting the least permissive rights is the first step in securing the data. Share the read only app for access to the reports or grant access to the workspaces for collaboration and development. Another aspect of managing and distributing items is enforcing such best practices.

You can manage sharing and distribution both internally and outside of your organization, in compliance with your organization's policies and procedures.