Migrate workspaces to a different region with fabric items removed

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have a workspace in a regional capacity which had fabric items in the past. I'm trying to migrate that workspace to a capacity in different region. I have already deleted the fabric items from the source workspace. However, I still can't migrate my workspace to a different region. It gives me error as below. Any suggestion is appreciated.
 

[Sebastien_G]

Hello,

Has anyone found a solution since the last message?

I’m in exactly the same situation: I can’t move a workspace between two capacities located in different regions because this workspace previously contained Fabric artifacts, even though they’ve been deleted. It’s like they’re still present, even though I’ve checked several times and everything is clean.

If you have any idea...

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Workspaces and the data they contain reside on capacities, and can be moved around by assigning them to different capacities. Such movement might be between capacities in different regions, or between different capacity types, such as Premium and shared.

In Microsoft Fabric, such movement currently has the following restrictions:

• Non Power BI Fabric items can't move from Premium to shared capacity.

• Non Power BI Fabric items can't move between regions.

This means the following:

• Moving a workspace from one capacity to another within the same region

  If the workspace has non Power BI Fabric items, you can only move it from one Premium capacity to another Premium capacity. If you want to move the workspace from Premium to shared capacity, you won't be able to do so unless you delete all non-Power BI Fabric items first.

  If the workspace has no non Power BI Fabric items (that is, it has only Power BI items) moving the workspace from Premium to shared is supported.

• Moving a workspace from one capacity to a capacity in a different region

  You won't be able to move a workspace if it has non-Power BI Fabric items in it. If the workspace once had non-PowerBI Fabric items, but all items have since been deleted, you also won't be able to move the workspace to a capacity in a different region.

  If the workspace has no non-Power BI Fabric items (that is, it has only Power BI items) moving the workspace to another capacity in a different region is supported.

Below is the official link will help you:

Manage workspaces - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn

Best Regards,

Xianda Tang

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

[PV_INA]

This post is very relevant for our use case, so I would like to have confirmation about this:
In the answer on the original question, I read "If the workspace once had non-PowerBI Fabric items, but all items have since been deleted, you also won't be able to move the workspace to a capacity in a different region." but I can't read it on the (actual) documentation page. Is this still the case? Or no longer a restriction?

In addition, non-Power BI items include KQL databases. Other non-Power BI items (dataflows, notebooks...) can relatively easy be recreated or re-uploaded; but what about KQL databases (containing a lot of IoT data)? What steps need to be taken there? Or is this totally discouraged (or impossible)? Thanks!

[danjo914]

Not sure your answer is accurate. If it were true then why would this error message exist when changing the capacity in workspace settings 

Or the other route through the admin portal.

I think you cannot actually migrate fabric workspaces across regions at this stage. Hopefully soon. If anyone knows a workaround other than manually recreating that would be extremely beneficial.

[Mikes2nd1]

No you cannot migrate fabric items to another region, you must back them up and delete.  Often you don't realize the Fabric item is linked, and there is still something lingering after you thought you got them all.