Managing Microsoft Fabric

Creating Workspaces and Domains in Microsoft Fabric

This module introduces the structural concepts that make Microsoft Fabric a cohesive, end-to-end analytics platform. By exploring how modern data architectures evolved and how Fabric organizes data into domains and workspaces, learners see why governance, collaboration, and scalability depend on getting these foundations right. Understanding these building blocks also provides the context for implementing patterns like the Medallion Architecture and for making informed decisions about capacity and licensing.

• What is Microsoft Fabric?
• From Traditional Data Warehousing to Data Lakes
• Domains and Workspaces in Microsoft Fabric
• Options for Implementing a Medallion Architecture
• Microsoft Fabric Licensing
• Assigning Capacities to Workspaces
• LAB: Create domain and workspaces

Microsoft Fabric Security

A solid security foundation is essential for any Microsoft Fabric deployment because it protects both the platform's governance layer (control plane) and the data assets that drive analytics (data plane). This module equips administrators with the understanding needed to secure workspaces, lakehouses, warehouses, and folders; ensuring that the right people have the right access at the right scope.

• Control plane versus data plane security
• Workspace Security
• Lakehouse Security
• Warehouse Security
• Shortcut Security
• Onelake Security
• Network Security: Private Links, Trusted Workspace Access and Managed Private Endpoints
• LAB: Configuring Microsoft Fabric security

Working with the Fabric Admin Portal

This module focuses on how the Microsoft Fabric Admin Portal serves as the control center for shaping the overall behavior of your organization's analytics environment. By understanding how tenant- and capacity-level decisions influence what users can do and how workloads run, administrators gain the context they need to manage workspaces effectively and sustainably.

• Tenant Settings
• Capacity Settings
• Workspace Administration
• LAB: Configuring Fabric in the Admin Portal

Monitoring Microsoft Fabric

Monitoring gives insight which items are popular, how many capacity units are used per resource, storage consumption etc.

• Monitoring from the Azure Portal
• Monitoring in the Fabric portal
• Inspecting the OneLake Catalog
• Audit Logs
• Working with the Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics App
• LAB: Monitoring a Microsoft Fabric Tenant

Source control in Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Fabric can be linked with source control from either Azure DevOps or GitHub. But there is also support for deployment pipelines which are built-in into Microsoft Fabric. Variable Libraries simplify the configuration of the different deployments.

• Configuring Workspace Git integration
• Committing Changes
• Options for Deploying resources
• Setting up Microsoft Fabric Deployment Pipelines
• Working with Microsoft Fabric Variable Libraries
• LAB: Setup Source Control

Microsoft Fabric Governance from Purview

Governance and compliance become important aspects of data management. Microsoft Fabric integrates with Microsoft Purview. And although advanced features require a paid Purview account, even with the free Purview version basic governance becomes possible.

• What is Microsoft Purview?
• Purview Licensing
• Navigating the Purview Portal
• Annotating the Metadata
• Brief overview of Purview Enterprise Features
• LAB: Governing Fabric from within Microsoft Purview

Managing Microsoft Fabric from Code

When you have to setup multiple workspaces in a similar way, it could be convenient to automate some of this. In Microsoft Fabric different ways exist to create resources from code.

• Creating Microsoft Fabric Capacities with Biceps and ARM
• Managing Fabric Artifacts from Python with sempy
• Using NotebookUtils to Create Fabric Items
• Working with the Microsoft Fabric Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Microsoft Fabric REST API
• LAB: Managing Microsoft Fabric from Code