vvargasv
Microsoft Employee
5 months agoStatus:
Planned
Enable granular control to allow users to create specific Fabric item types (not all‑or‑nothing)
Current behavior
Today, Microsoft Fabric controls item creation through a single tenant or capacity‑level setting: “Users can create Fabric items.”
This setting works on an all‑or‑nothing basis:
- When enabled, users can create all Fabric item types in a workspace.
- When disabled, users cannot create any Fabric items.
There is currently no supported way to selectively allow or block specific Fabric item types (for example, allowing users to create only reports but not Lakehouses, Warehouses, Pipelines, etc.).
Problem / customer impact
Many organizations have strong governance and separation‑of‑duties requirements. Common scenarios include:
- Allowing report developers to create only Power BI reports
- Allowing data engineers to create data engineering objects only
- Preventing accidental creation of high‑impact objects (e.g., Warehouses, Lakehouses, Pipelines)
Because item creation is all‑or‑nothing, admins are forced to:
- Over‑restrict users (Viewer role), or
- Over‑expose capabilities that users should not have
This creates friction, governance risk, and additional administrative overhead through workarounds such as multiple workspaces per persona.
Requested enhancement
Provide granular creation controls that allow admins to:
- Enable or disable specific Fabric item types per tenant, capacity, or security group
- Align Fabric permissions more closely with real‑world organizational roles
- Improve governance without limiting adoption or usability
Benefits
- Stronger security and governance
- Better role separation without workspace sprawl
- Reduced risk of unintentional resource creation
- Improved admin and customer experience
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