Maybe this topic is not the most sexiest of them all, but it certainly has the same (or maybe even more) amount of value for YOU!
And.. another post on my favorite topic: Governance and Administration!
With all the Fabric announcements in the last months, some of the Admin announcements might have slipped through. As you might know, the Admin part of Fabric is dear to my heart. I've posted about it earlier here, here, here, and here, to name a few 😀.
Earlier I wrote about the default domain settings, changes to the default tenant setting value for SQL database and I also covered the (rights of the) Fabric Adminsitrator role. Today I want to talk about a more meta-topic: existing documentation on Microsoft Learn, and of course specifically for Admins.
Microsoft Fabric documentation
By this point, I assume you've read this far (and perhaps a few other posts as well), I guess you've heard of Microsoft Learn. 😁
If not, go there now: Microsoft Fabric documentation!
It is full of so much good content, to name a few:
- Overview
- What is Fabric: The B.A.S.I.C.S.
- Security in Fabric: You might not be aware, but there's so many things you can do to tweak and adjust security for your organization!
- Concepts
- Choose a Fabric data store: Choose between a Lakehouse, Warehouse, Eventhouse, or SQL Database
- Copilot in Fabric: In what workloads can you use Copilot and what are the prereqs?
- Capacity and license types: This explains concepts like a tenant, capacity, workspace, SKU's, Power BI licenses, etc.
- Tutorials
- Use taskflows to build solutions: I'm curious, who really uses these in their environment?
- End-to-end tutorials: Those tutorials where the corner-stone of getting started with Fabric after it was announced. They still provide enourmous value, although sometimes the steps can be very basic.
And there's so much more:
Ok, I know... Sometimes the documentation is, let's say, a bit behind the latest features in Fabric, right?
It may be outdated, there might be typo's, it might even be wrong in some points.
Instead of (only) complaining, you should do something about it! 😏
Did you know you can edit those pages (make sure you're logged in to your MS Learn account):
After clicking that pencil on a doc page, you end up at GitHub where you can make changes to the document. You do need a GitHub account, know how to fork the repo and create a Pull Request when you're done (if you don't know how to, read this tutorial on GitHub 101).
Microsoft Fabric documentation for admins
Now on to my favorite part: the Admin stuff! 😁
Go to Microsoft Fabric documentation for admins to learn all about admin settings, tools, the admin portal, admin roles, and monitoring and management to name a few.
The admin monitoring workspace is a specialized environment designed for Fabric administrators to monitor and manage workloads, usage, and governance within their tenant. Using the resources available within the workspace, admins can perform tasks such as security audits, performance monitoring, capacity management, and more.
It recently got a revamp on the design side and now looks way better.
The information contained in the report is on a fairly basic level, but you can still get some good insights out of it.
Next to that, you can also connect to the semantic model and extend it.
Closing
As you see there is a lot of information available on Microsoft Learn.`
Do you think the documentation on Microsoft Learn is valuable? Have you used it?
Does it need improvement? If yes, on what points?
Let me know in the comments!
