Marking a trusted item as promoted or certified

Endorsement in Microsoft Fabric lets item owners and workspace admins signal trust and quality for items in the Fabric portal, helping consumers discover reliable content. There are two endorsement levels, Promote and Certify, each with different permission requirements and visibility implications across workspaces and the OneLake data hub.

1 · Learn the must-know

• 1Promoting an item can be done by anyone with write permissions on that item, and it signals the item is useful and ready to share, but it does not guarantee quality review.
• 2Certifying an item requires elevated permissions granted by an admin (only specific security groups designated by a Fabric/Power BI admin can certify), signaling the item has been reviewed and meets organizational quality standards.
• 3Endorsement (Promote/Certify) badges appear next to items in workspaces, the OneLake data hub, and search results, making certified/promoted items easier to discover and trust.
• 4Certification is configured at the tenant level in the Fabric admin portal, where an admin specifies which security groups are allowed to certify items and can also link to a certification policy document.
• 5Endorsement status can be removed or changed later by users with sufficient permissions, and certification badges are visually distinct (e.g., a different icon) from promoted badges to indicate the higher trust level.
• 6Endorsement applies across most Fabric item types (reports, datasets/semantic models, lakehouses, notebooks, pipelines, etc.), but exact support can vary by item type and is subject to ongoing feature rollout.

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