Connect to and manage your Microsoft Fabric tenant (2024)

This article outlines how to register a Microsoft Fabric tenant that's in the same tenant as your Microsoft Purview resource, and how to authenticate and interact with the Fabric source in Microsoft Purview. For more information about Microsoft Purview in general, read the introductory article.

Supported capabilities

Authentication options

• Managed Identity
• Service Principal
• Delegated Authentication

Known limitations

• Currently scanning with a self-hosted integration runtime or Managed Virtual Network (VNet) integration runtime isn't supported.
• Currently for all Fabric items besides Power BI, only item level metadata and lineage will be scanned, scanning metadata and lineage of sub level items like Lakehouse tables or files isn't supported.
• Empty workspaces are skipped.

Prerequisites

Before you start, make sure you have the following prerequisites:

• An Azure account with an active subscription. Create an account for free.

• An active Microsoft Purview account.

Register Fabric tenant

This section describes how to register a Fabric tenant in Microsoft Purview for same-tenant scenario.

1. Select the Data Map on the left navigation.

2. Then select Register.

   Select Fabric as your data source.

   

3. Give your Fabric instance a friendly name and select a collection.

   The name must be between 3-63 characters long and must contain only letters, numbers, underscores, and hyphens. Spaces aren't allowed.

   By default, the system will find the Fabric tenant that exists in the same Microsoft Entra tenant.

Authentication to scan

To be able to scan your Microsoft Fabric tenant and review its metadata, you'll first need to create a way to authenticate with the Fabric tenant, and then give Microsoft Purview the authentication information.

Authenticate to Fabric tenant

In Microsoft Entra tenant, where Fabric tenant is located:

1. In the Azure portal, search for Microsoft Entra ID.

2. Create a new security group in your Microsoft Entra ID, by following Create a basic group and add members using Microsoft Entra ID.

   Tip

   You can skip this step if you already have a security group you want to use.

3. Select Security as the Group Type.

   

4. Add any relevant users to the security group:

   • If you're using Managed Identity as authentication method, add your Microsoft Purview managed identity to this security group. Select Members, then select + Add members.

     

   • If you're using delegated authentication or service principal as authentication method, add your service principal to this security group. Select Members, then select + Add members.

5. Search for your Microsoft Purview managed identity or service principal and select it.

   

   You should see a success notification showing you that it was added.

   

Associate the security group with Fabric tenant

1. Log into the Fabric admin portal.

2. Select the Tenant settings page.

   Important

   You need to be a Fabric Admin to see the tenant settings page.

3. Select Admin API settings > Allow service principals to use read-only admin APIs.

4. Select Specific security groups.

5. Select Admin API settings > Enhance admin APIs responses with detailed metadata and Enhance admin APIs responses with DAX and mashup expressions > Enable the toggle to allow Microsoft Purview Data Map automatically discover the detailed metadata of Fabric datasets as part of its scans.

   Important

   After you update the Admin API settings on your Fabric tenant, wait around 15 minutes before registering a scan and test connection.

   Caution

   When you allow the security group you created (that has your Microsoft Purview managed identity as a member) to use read-only admin APIs, you also allow it to access the metadata (e.g. dashboard and report names, owners, descriptions, etc.) for all of your Fabric artifacts in this tenant. Once the metadata has been pulled into the Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Purview's permissions, not Fabric permissions, determine who can see that metadata.

   Note

   You can remove the security group from your developer settings, but the metadata previously extracted won't be removed from the Microsoft Purview account. You can delete it separately, if you wish.

Give Microsoft Purview authentication information

Create scan

1. In the Microsoft Purview Studio, navigate to the Data map in the left menu.

2. Navigate to Sources.

3. Select the registered Fabric source.

4. Select + New scan.

5. Give your scan a name.

6. Select either your managed identity credential, or the credential you created for your service principal or delegated authentication.

7. Select Test Connection before continuing to next steps. If Test Connection failed, select View Report to see the detailed status and troubleshoot the problem.

   1. Access - Failed status means the user authentication failed. Scans using managed identity will always pass because no user authentication required. If using service principal or delegated authentication, make sure your Key Vault credential was correctly set up and that Microsoft Purview has access to the key vault.
   2. Assets (+ lineage) - Failed status means the Microsoft Purview - Fabric authorization has failed. Make sure the Microsoft Purview managed identity is added to the security group associated in Fabric admin portal.
   3. Detailed metadata (Enhanced) - Failed status means the Fabric admin portal is disabled for the following setting - Enhance admin APIs responses with detailed metadata

   Tip

   For more troubleshooting, see the deployment checklist to make sure you've covered every step in your scenario.

8. Set up a scan trigger. Your options are Recurring, and Once.

   

9. On Review new scan, select Save and run to launch your scan.

View your scans and scan runs

To view existing scans:

1. Go to the Microsoft Purview portal. On the left pane, select Data map.
2. Select the data source. You can view a list of existing scans on that data source under Recent scans, or you can view all scans on the Scans tab.
3. Select the scan that has results you want to view. The pane shows you all the previous scan runs, along with the status and metrics for each scan run.
4. Select the run ID to check the scan run details.

Manage your scans

To edit, cancel, or delete a scan:

1. Go to the Microsoft Purview portal. On the left pane, select Data Map.

2. Select the data source. You can view a list of existing scans on that data source under Recent scans, or you can view all scans on the Scans tab.

3. Select the scan that you want to manage. You can then:

   • Edit the scan by selecting Edit scan.
   • Cancel an in-progress scan by selecting Cancel scan run.
   • Delete your scan by selecting Delete scan.

Deployment checklist

1. Make sure Fabric and Microsoft Purview accounts are in the same tenant.

2. Make sure Fabric tenant ID is entered correctly during the registration.

3. Make sure your Fabric Metadata model is up to date by enabling metadata scanning.

4. From Azure portal, validate if Microsoft Purview account Network is set to public access.

5. From Fabric tenant Admin Portal, make sure Fabric tenant is configured to allow public network.

Next steps

Now that you've registered your source, follow the below guides to learn more about Microsoft Purview and your data.

• Data Estate Insights in Microsoft Purview
• Search Data Catalog