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Understand Microsoft Fabric admin roles

There are several roles that work together to administer Microsoft Fabric for your organization. Most admin roles are assigned in the Microsoft 365 admin portal or by using PowerShell. The capacity admin roles are assigned when the capacity is created. To learn more about each of the admin roles, see About admin roles. To learn how to assign admin roles, see Assign admin roles.

Microsoft 365 admin roles

This section lists the Microsoft 365 admin roles and the tasks they can perform.

  • Global administrator

    • Unlimited access to all management features for the organization
    • Assign roles to other users
  • Billing administrator

    • Manage subscriptions
    • Purchase licenses
  • License administrator

    • Assign or remove licenses for users
  • User administrator

    • Create and manage users and groups
    • Reset user passwords

Power Platform and Fabric admin roles

As a Power Platform or a Fabric admin, you have full access to all the Microsoft Fabric management tasks.

  • Power Platform administrator or Fabric administrator
    • Enable and disable Microsoft Fabric features
    • Report on usage and performance
    • Review and manage auditing

These roles provide access to the admin portal and control over organization-wide Fabric settings, usage metrics, and admin features, except for licensing. Assigning users to dedicated Fabric admin roles allows organizations to grant the permissions needed to administer Fabric without granting full Microsoft 365 admin rights.

Capacity admin roles

As a capacity admin, you can perform these tasks on the capacity you're an admin of.

  • Capacity administrator
    • Assign workspaces to the capacity
    • Manage user permission to the capacity
    • Manage workloads to configure memory usage

Assign users to Fabric admin roles

Microsoft 365 user admins assign users to the Fabric administrator or Power Platform administrator roles in the Microsoft 365 admin portal, or by using a PowerShell script.

Microsoft 365 admin portal

To assign users to an admin role in the Microsoft 365 admin portal, follow the instructions in Add an admin.

PowerShell

You can also assign users to roles by using PowerShell. To assign users to an admin role using PowerShell, follow the instructions in Assign admin roles to Microsoft 365 user accounts with PowerShell.