From the course: Implementing Data Engineering Solutions Using Microsoft Fabric (DP-700) Cert Prep by Microsoft Press

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Understanding required permissions and licensing

Understanding required permissions and licensing

We're looking at understanding required permissions and licensing. In the Fabric Portal itself, we can actually enable and disable the ability for users to create fabric items. You can enable it for a subset of the organisation which is recommended, so you'll need to add users to Entra Groups and then add the Entra Groups to the Users Can Create Fabric Items security option. In terms of fabric capacity, we create fabric capacity in Azure, so we'll need an Azure subscription to be able to create those fabric capacities. In my example, I've created three fabric capacities and then I can allocate any of my workspaces to any of those three capacities. Now for licensing. This is about what you can do with the Fabric items itself. Now you've got three types of user licensing within Fabric. Free, Pro and Premium per user. And as you can see, even the free user can do a lot of things with Fabric. What it can't do is anything to do with Power BI items. A free license can actually create fabric…

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