Workspace cannot be reassigned because it includes Fabric items or you're attempting to move...

Hii rkhabibulin 

 

This error occurs because workspaces that contain Microsoft Fabric items cannot be reassigned to a different capacity or moved across regions. Even if you only see reports and semantic models, the workspace may still contain hidden or soft-deleted Fabric artifacts. Power BI blocks reassignment in such cases. To resolve it, check and permanently delete any Fabric items (Lakehouse, Warehouse, Notebook, Dataflow Gen2, etc.) from the workspace or ensure the capacity is in the same region, then retry the reassignment.

Hi rkhabibulin ,

Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Community Forum.

 

OneLake uses soft delete, so “deleted” files can still exist for a retention window and count as content. You can enumerate/restore or permanently remove after retention via Azure Storage Explorer or PowerShell.

Please try below options to find soft‑deleted Fabric artifacts.

1. Azure Storage Explorer, Connect Storage Explorer to OneLake for your workspace. Navigate to the data item path like your-workspace/lakehouse.Lakehouse/Files/ or Tables/. In the path bar dropdown, switch from “Active blobs” to “Active and soft deleted blobs.” Right‑click any soft‑deleted entries to Undelete.

2. PowerShell, It gives list of soft‑deleted files and remaining retention days, then decide whether to wait or restore/purge as appropriate.

 

Note: OneLake soft‑delete retention is currently 7 days by default and the data is billable during that period; tenant admins can manage workspace retention policies from the Admin portal.

 

Please try below workarounds.

1. Keep the workspace in its current region, Assign it to a capacity in the same region as the workspace . This avoids cross‑region reassignment and unblocks Embedded.

2. Move content to a workspace in the capacity’s region, Because cross‑region workspace reassignment is not supported when Fabric items are involved , the pragmatic approach is:

Create a new workspace in North Europe or wherever your Embedded capacity is. Re‑publish reports and semantic models there, or use ALM Toolkit/Deployment Pipelines if you have them. Repoint your app/embed configs to the new workspace.

 

Please refer below links.

Recover deleted files - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn

Find your Fabric home region - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn

Multi-Geo support for Fabric - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn

OneLake Disaster Recovery and Data Protection - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn

 

I hope this information helps. Please do let us know if you have any further queries.

 

Regards,

Dinesh