Grouping and governing workspaces with a Fabric domain

Microsoft Fabric domains let admins group workspaces by business area (e.g., Finance, Sales) to apply consistent governance, discoverability, and policy settings across those workspaces. Fabric or domain admins configure domain-level settings that cascade down to member workspaces, while workspace admins retain limited ability to override certain settings unless locked by the domain.

1 · Learn the must-know

• 1Only Fabric admins (or those granted domain admin rights) can create domains and assign workspaces to them in the Admin portal.
• 2Domains can have associated contributors who are permitted to move workspaces into or out of the domain, but only admins can create/delete domains themselves.
• 3Domain-level settings (such as default workspace capacity, sharing, and certain tenant switches) can be set to apply to all workspaces in the domain, and admins can choose to enforce them so workspace owners cannot override.
• 4Sub-domains can be created under a parent domain to allow more granular grouping and delegated administration within a larger business area.
• 5Workspaces can belong to only one domain at a time, and assigning a workspace to a domain does not change its existing permissions or content.
• 6Domain settings and workspace assignments are managed from the Admin portal's Domains section, and changes can take some time to propagate across the tenant.

2 · Check your understanding