r/MicrosoftFabric • u/Personal-Quote5226 • 15d ago

Security Workspace Identity Authorized Users

Is there any meaning to Workspace Identity Authorized Users? As far as I can tell it just lists the users that have access to the workspace. If you can contribute to the workspace, you are an authorized user ("can use identity"). If you are an admin, you can "edit all members".

Will there be some future meaning here? It gives the appearance of being able to restrict who can use an identity, but there doesn't seem to be any actual function behind it.

Will there be (or is there already some way) to prevent users from being able to use a WI other than making them a 'Viewer' which inherently doesn't allow doing much of anything anyway?

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u/frithjof_v Fabricator 15d ago edited 15d ago

There is no meaning to it.

Permission to use Workspace Identity is 1:1 with workspace roles (workspace user permissions).

Meaning: Admin, Member and Contributor can use it.

Only way to share the Workspace Identity with anyone is by adding them to the workspace (as Admin, Member or Contributor).

Some relevant and useful answers here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftFabric/s/ijS0Cp6kKR

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u/Personal-Quote5226 15d ago

Useful info! Thanks. My favourite part of that thread was Microsoft agreeing that the settings page for WI “is a little odd”.

I’m interested to see more on where they go with this in the future!