Course Introduction
Microsoft Fabric Data Governance and Administration Training Course provides a comprehensive and practical foundation for managing, securing, governing, and monitoring Microsoft Fabric environments. The course focuses on the administrative capabilities required to establish controlled enterprise analytics platforms, including tenant settings, workspaces, capacities, domains, user access, governance policies, security controls, monitoring, auditing, and organizational data management.
The course introduces the administrative architecture of Microsoft Fabric and explains how administrators can configure tenant-wide capabilities, delegate responsibilities, manage workspaces, control feature access, and monitor platform usage. Participants examine the Fabric admin portal and related Microsoft administration tools while learning how administrative responsibilities can be distributed across Fabric, capacity, workspace, and other specialized roles.
Participants will develop practical knowledge of Fabric governance, including data discovery, classification, lineage, certification, domains, metadata management, access control, auditing, and governance monitoring. The course also explores the OneLake catalog, which provides centralized experiences for discovering, governing, and securing Fabric data and offers Govern and Secure capabilities for improving organizational data management.
Security is a major component of the training. Participants learn how Microsoft Entra ID, workspace roles, item permissions, OneLake security roles, row-level security, column-level security, audit logs, conditional access, and other controls can be combined to protect enterprise data. The course distinguishes between control-plane permissions and data-plane permissions so that administrators can understand how access to Fabric resources and access to the underlying data are governed.
The training also addresses data protection and compliance requirements, including sensitivity labels, Microsoft Purview capabilities, information protection, data loss prevention, auditing, lineage, and organizational policies. Participants explore how governance practices can promote trusted data while supporting appropriate access, regulatory requirements, privacy considerations, and responsible use of analytics resources across an enterprise.
Emerging administration and governance issues are integrated throughout the course, including AI governance, Copilot considerations, automated governance insights, metadata scanning, service principals, multi-geo environments, third-party engine access, and evolving OneLake security capabilities. By the end of the course, participants will be better prepared to establish secure, governed, monitored, and scalable Microsoft Fabric environments that support both current analytics needs and evolving enterprise data strategies.
Duration
5 days
Who Should Attend
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Microsoft Fabric administrators responsible for configuring and managing organization-wide Fabric environments.
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Power BI administrators expanding their responsibilities into Microsoft Fabric governance and administration.
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Data governance professionals responsible for establishing enterprise policies, standards, ownership, and data stewardship.
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Data security professionals responsible for protecting sensitive information across Fabric and OneLake environments.
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Microsoft 365 administrators involved in user, group, licensing, access, and organizational configuration.
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Cloud administrators managing Microsoft Fabric capacities, workspaces, tenants, networking, and operational resources.
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Data architects designing secure and governed enterprise data platforms using Microsoft Fabric.
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Compliance professionals working with auditing, information protection, regulatory requirements, and data governance controls.
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IT managers overseeing Microsoft Fabric adoption, platform administration, security, governance, and operational performance.
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Power BI and analytics consultants implementing Fabric governance frameworks for enterprise customers and projects.
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Data stewards responsible for data discovery, classification, certification, quality, lineage, ownership, and trusted data usage.
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Solution architects developing governance and security models for organizations adopting Microsoft Fabric at scale.
Course Objectives
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Explain Microsoft Fabric administration architecture, administrative roles, tenant controls, workspaces, capacities, domains, and governance responsibilities across an enterprise.
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Configure appropriate Fabric tenant settings and feature controls while aligning platform capabilities with organizational policies and operational requirements.
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Manage Fabric workspaces, roles, permissions, capacities, domains, and delegated administration structures to support controlled platform adoption.
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Apply OneLake security concepts and create appropriate data-access models using workspace permissions, item permissions, and granular security roles.
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Implement table-level, column-level, and row-level data access controls to protect sensitive information while enabling authorized analytical use.
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Use the OneLake catalog to discover, govern, secure, monitor, and improve the governance posture of organizational data across Fabric.
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Apply governance practices involving lineage, certification, endorsements, metadata, data discovery, ownership, classification, and trusted analytical content.
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Configure and interpret auditing, monitoring, usage information, and administrative insights to identify operational issues and improve Fabric management.
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Integrate Microsoft Purview, sensitivity labels, data protection, compliance, and information governance concepts into enterprise Fabric administration strategies.
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Evaluate emerging governance and administration requirements involving AI, Copilot, automation, third-party engines, multi-geo environments, and evolving OneLake security capabilities.
Comprehensive Course Outline
Module 1: Microsoft Fabric Administration Foundations
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Understanding Microsoft Fabric administration architecture and the responsibilities involved in managing a cloud-based enterprise analytics platform.
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Exploring Fabric administrative roles, delegated responsibilities, tenant administration, capacity administration, workspace management, and specialized governance functions.
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Navigating the Fabric admin portal and understanding how administrators configure organizational settings, features, workloads, and platform capabilities.
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Establishing an effective administrative operating model that balances centralized governance with delegated responsibilities across business and technical teams.
Module 2: Tenant Settings, Users, and Access Management
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Understanding Fabric tenant settings and how administrators enable, restrict, and configure capabilities according to organizational policies.
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Managing users, groups, licenses, authentication requirements, and organizational access through Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft 365 administration tools.
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Applying workspace roles, item permissions, sharing controls, and appropriate access principles to reduce unnecessary exposure of analytical resources.
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Designing access-management processes that support least-privilege principles, role separation, controlled collaboration, and periodic permission reviews.
Module 3: Workspace, Capacity, and Domain Administration
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Creating and managing Fabric workspaces while establishing appropriate ownership, roles, access models, naming conventions, and lifecycle processes.
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Understanding Fabric capacities, workload management, resource allocation, consumption considerations, and administrative responsibilities for shared environments.
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Using domains to organize business data and Fabric content according to organizational structures, ownership models, and business responsibilities.
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Establishing workspace and capacity management standards that support scalability, performance, accountability, cost awareness, and controlled enterprise growth.
Module 4: OneLake Governance and Data Management
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Understanding OneLake as the unified organizational data lake and examining its role in centralized data storage, governance, security, and analytics.
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Using the OneLake catalog to discover Fabric items, explore metadata, understand ownership, and identify governance opportunities across organizational data.
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Working with the Govern tab to assess governance posture, identify recommended actions, and prioritize improvements across managed Fabric data.
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Applying data ownership, discovery, certification, curation, lineage, and metadata-management practices to improve trust and usability of enterprise data.
Module 5: OneLake Security and Data Access Control
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Understanding the difference between control-plane permissions and data-plane security and how both contribute to comprehensive Fabric data protection.
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Creating and managing OneLake security roles that control access to tables, folders, schemas, and other supported data structures.
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Applying row-level and column-level security to restrict access to sensitive information according to user, group, business, or regulatory requirements.
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Managing Microsoft Entra identities, workspace roles, security roles, and permission interactions to create consistent and auditable data-access models.
Module 6: Governance, Cataloging, Lineage, and Trusted Data
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Implementing data governance practices covering ownership, classification, discovery, certification, endorsements, lineage, quality, and responsible data usage.
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Tracking data lineage and impact relationships to understand dependencies between data sources, transformations, analytical items, and downstream reports.
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Applying certification and curation practices to help users distinguish trusted analytical content from unverified, duplicated, or outdated organizational assets.
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Addressing emerging governance challenges involving decentralized data ownership, self-service analytics, AI-generated content, metadata scale, and cross-domain data management.
Module 7: Security, Compliance, and Microsoft Purview
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Understanding Microsoft Fabric security architecture, Microsoft Entra authentication, conditional access, encryption, network controls, and broader security responsibilities.
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Exploring Microsoft Purview capabilities related to auditing, information protection, sensitivity labels, data loss prevention, lifecycle management, and compliance.
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Applying protection policies associated with sensitivity labels to help control access to protected Fabric items and support organizational information-protection requirements.
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Designing security and compliance processes that align Fabric governance with enterprise policies, regulatory expectations, privacy requirements, and risk-management practices.
Module 8: Monitoring, Auditing, and Operational Administration
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Using Fabric monitoring capabilities to evaluate platform activity, workspace behavior, capacity consumption, usage patterns, and operational conditions.
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Understanding audit logs and how administrative teams can use activity information to investigate access, configuration changes, sharing, and user actions.
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Establishing administrative monitoring processes that identify performance concerns, adoption patterns, unusual activity, governance gaps, and operational risks.
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Exploring automation options using administrative APIs, PowerShell, metadata scanning, service principals, and other tools for repeatable platform management.
Module 9: Advanced Governance, Protection, and Enterprise Controls
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Applying information-protection strategies to sensitive data while balancing secure access with legitimate analytical and business requirements.
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Understanding advanced OneLake security considerations involving shortcuts, external access, authorized third-party engines, and consistent policy enforcement.
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Developing governance frameworks for multi-workspace, multi-domain, multi-capacity, and potentially multi-geo Fabric environments.
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Addressing emerging challenges involving AI-generated insights, autonomous data workflows, privacy, regulatory change, external data access, and responsible analytics.
Module 10: Emerging Fabric Administration and Governance
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Exploring Copilot and AI governance considerations, including access control, responsible use, data exposure, privacy, monitoring, and organizational adoption.
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Examining emerging OneLake governance capabilities, automated governance insights, centralized security management, metadata discovery, and intelligent administrative workflows.
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Developing enterprise governance operating models that combine policy, technology controls, stewardship, monitoring, auditing, security, and continuous improvement.
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Building an end-to-end Fabric governance and administration framework integrating tenant management, workspaces, capacities, OneLake, security, compliance, monitoring, and emerging technologies.
Training Approach
This course will be delivered by our skilled trainers who have vast knowledge and experience as expert professionals in the fields. The course is taught in English and through a mix of theory, practical activities, group discussion and case studies. Course manuals and additional training materials will be provided to the participants upon completion of the training.
Tailor-Made Course
This course can also be tailor-made to meet organization requirement. For further inquiries, please contact us on: Email: training@upskilldevelopment.com Tel: +254 721 331 808
Training Venue
The training will be held at our Upskill Training Centre. We also offer training for a group (at a discount of 10% to 50%) at requested location all over the world. The Onsite course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments, buffet lunch, airport transfers, Upskill gift package, and guided tour.
Visa application, travel expenses, dinners, accommodation, insurance, and other personal expenses are catered by the participant
Certification
Participants will be issued with Upskill certificate upon completion of this course.
Airport Pickup and Accommodation
Airport pickup and accommodation is arranged upon request. For booking contact our Training Coordinator through Email: training@upskilldevelopment.com, +254 721 331 808
Terms of Payment:
Unless otherwise agreed between the two parties’ payment of the course fee should be done 3 working days before commencement of the training so as to enable us to prepare better.
