Workspace app

In the Ultra Transcenders books

DP-900PL-300

Each book explains Workspace app in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• Power BI

  Microsoft's analytics and reporting service. It reaches data held on-premises through the on-premises data gateway.

• Workspace

  Teams in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric collaborate in this folder-style container, which groups items such as reports, semantic models and lakehouses, controls who can access them and is assigned a capacity.

• Audience

  Setting on a point-to-site VPN gateway using Microsoft Entra ID authentication; it contains the app ID of the Azure VPN Client or of a custom app. Only a single Audience value is allowed per gateway.

• PPU

  Premium Per User. Licensed person by person, it adds most Premium capacity features on top of everything Pro offers. Items in a PPU workspace are shareable only with other PPU licence holders, and no Fabric capacity comes with it.

• Licence

  What entitles one particular user to the services a subscription offers. Each product licence is made up of several service plans (one per app or service), and before giving it to someone an admin has to record that user's usage location.

• CRUD

  Shorthand for create, read, update and delete, the four basic things you do with data. Data-plane roles in Azure Cosmos DB, for instance, authorise those operations on items.

Related terms

• App audience

  A set of people in a Power BI app who are shown only selected parts of its content. Each app supports a maximum of 25 of them.

• Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics app

  A Power BI app for keeping an eye on Fabric and Power BI Premium capacities, set up by whoever administers the capacity. The Compute view covers the last 14 days of capacity unit usage and throttling, down to the items and operations responsible.