Building the Fabric Guardrails: A Governance Hands-On Guide

Microsoft Fabric delivers significant analytical capabilities, but without well-designed guardrails it can quickly drift into disorder, with unclear ownership, inconsistent security models, and limited visibility across the platform.

This training day is a practitioner’s guide to turning governance principles into a working system. We move beyond theory and slide-driven discussions to design and implement the guidelines that allow Microsoft Fabric environments to scale in a controlled, predictable, and secure way:

Structure & Security
How to design Domains, Workspaces, and object structures that reflect real business capabilities and ownership. You will see how a well-designed structure becomes the foundation for effective security, reducing complexity and operational risk. Security concepts such as RLS and OLS will be discussed as complementary tools within this structure, focusing on when and why to use them rather than treating them as isolated features.

Visibility & Monitoring
How to gain visibility across your Fabric environment using the information that already exists today. We will show how Fabric Unified Admin Monitoring (FUAM) brings together data from multiple monitoring tools, extends it beyond short retention periods, and provides a more complete view for operational monitoring.

Source Control & Deployment
Learn how to use Git integration and deployment pipelines to enforce governance and maintain consistency across your Power BI and Fabric environments. Instead of relying on manual settings, you will see how version control and automated deployment can standardize models, track changes, and make governance repeatable and auditable.

By the end of this training day, participants will leave with a template framework for governance in Microsoft Fabric with practical examples, patterns, and processes that can be immediately applied in their own environments. Whether you are an architect, developer, or analyst, you will gain the skills and confidence to enforce guardrails, maintain security, optimize resources, and achieve operational visibility, turning governance from a theoretical concept into a concrete and sustainable practice.

• Have a template governance framework to apply in their own environment. • Understand how to design secure, maintainable structures in Fabric. • Be able to monitor and gain visibility across environments. • Learn how to leverage source control and automated deployment to enforce governance. Gain confidence in turning governance from a theoretical concept into a sustainable, operational practice.