Panel Debate: Real-World Microsoft Fabric Administration - Lessons from the Trenches

Microsoft Fabric administration looks straightforward on paper. In reality, it is anything but.

In this panel debate, four practitioners with extensive, real-world Fabric experience come together to discuss what actually works when administering Fabric at scale. Benni de Jagere (Microsoft CAT), Just Blindbæk (Tabular Editor), Lars Andersen (Microsoft CAT), and Ásgeir Gunnarsson (data lab) will share hard-earned lessons from real production environments, covering both successes and mistakes.

The discussion will focus on the most debated and misunderstood areas of Fabric administration, including tenant and capacity management, workspace strategies, governance models, monitoring, security boundaries, and operational ownership. Expect differing viewpoints, strong opinions, and honest answers to questions such as:

What to be aware of when administering your tenant?
How do you really understand capacity management?
How to organize your tenant to support scaling?
How to balance security and governance against usability for end users?

This is not a theoretical session. There are no slides full of checklists or generic guidance. Instead, you will get an honest, experience-driven discussion that reflects the realities of running Microsoft Fabric in modern enterprises.

Attendees will leave with clearer understanding practical insights, and concrete considerations they can apply immediately to their own Fabric environments no matter if they are just starting out or already operating at scale.

Give the audience insights into real world problems and solution when it comes to administration To share knowledge from large and small Fabric implementations To answer questions about Fabric administration from the audience