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Enable Microsoft Fabric for your organization

The Fabric admin switch lets organizations that use Power BI enable Fabric.

Note

  • Power BI is part of Fabric. The Power BI portal mentioned in this article is now the Fabric portal.
  • Fabric availability is restricted in some regions. For more information, see Fabric region availability.

You can enable Fabric for:

  • Your tenant - Use this option to enable Fabric for everyone in the tenant.

  • A specific capacity - Use this option if you want to enable Fabric for users in a specific capacity.

In both cases, you can use security groups to provide Fabric access to a specified list of users.

Prerequisites

To enable Fabric, you need to have the Fabric administrator role.

Enable for your tenant

When you enable Fabric using the tenant setting, users can create Fabric items in that tenant, unless capacity admins turned it off for a specific capacity. Depending on the configuration you select, Fabric becomes available for everyone in the tenant, or to a selected group of users.

Note

  • You, or other admins, can override the Fabric setting at the capacity level.
  • The Fabric trial capacity gives you free access for 60 days to explore most features across data engineering, data science, real-time analytics, business intelligence, and more.

In your tenant, you can enable Fabric for:

  • The entire organization - In most cases your organization has one tenant, so selecting this option enables it for the entire organization. In organizations that have several tenants, if you want to enable Fabric for the entire organization, you need to enable it in each tenant.

  • Specific security groups - Use this option to enable Fabric for specific users. You can either specify the security groups that Fabric will be enabled for, or the security groups that Fabric won't be available for.

Follow these steps to enable Fabric for your tenant.

  1. In the Power BI portal, navigate to the tenant settings in the admin portal and in Microsoft Fabric, expand Users can create Fabric items.

  2. Enable the Users can create Fabric items switch.

  3. (Optional) Use the Specific security groups option to enable Fabric for specific users. You can also use the Except specific security groups option, to exclude specific users.

  4. Select Apply.

Note

The Delegate settings to other admins option, isn't available because it's automatically delegated to capacity admins.

Enable for a capacity

Consider the Fabric setting at the tenant level a recommendation for the entire organization. Capacity admins can override this setting, depending on their needs. For example, Fabric can be enabled for all the users in your organization. However, for security reasons your organization decided to disable Fabric for a specific capacity. In such cases, Fabric can be disabled for that capacity.

Follow these steps to enable Fabric for a specific capacity.

  1. Navigate to the capacity settings in the admin portal.

  2. Select the capacity you want to enable Fabric for.

  3. Select the Delegate tenant settings tab, and under Fabric, expand the Users can create Fabric items setting.

  4. Check the Override tenant admin selection checkbox and verify that the Users can create Fabric items setting is enabled.

  5. (Optional) Use the Specific security groups option to enable Fabric for specific users. You can also use the Except specific security groups option, to enable Fabric for the capacity, and exclude specific users.

  6. Select Apply.

Can I disable Microsoft Fabric?

To disable Fabric, you can turn off the Microsoft Fabric admin switch. After disabling Fabric, users will have view permissions for Fabric items. If you disable Fabric for a specific capacity while Fabric is available in your organization, your selection will only affect that capacity.

Considerations

In some cases, users that don't have Fabric enabled will be able to view Fabric items and icons.

Users that don't have Fabric enabled, can:

  • View Fabric items created by other users in the same workspace, as long as they have at least read-only access to that workspace.

  • View Fabric icons in capacities where other users have Fabric enabled, as long as they have at least read-only access to that capacity.

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