workspaces`) — Parity Gap¶

Validator: v2 fabric-parity-loop · 4-phase check
Run date: 2026-05-26
Fabric reference: Fabric admin portal → Workspaces (tenant-wide workspace inventory)
Loom URL: https://loom-console-fvbbctd4eehqbkcs.b02.azurefd.net/admin/workspaces

Captures¶

Loom	Fabric
Live capture blocked by session expiry; structure from `apps/fiab-console/app/admin/workspaces/page.tsx`	Microsoft Learn — `https://learn.microsoft.com/fabric/admin/portal-workspaces` (with screenshot of the actual workspaces list)

Phase 1 — What Fabric provides¶

Fabric's Workspaces admin tab is a full tenant-wide workspace inventory with admin actions:

Workspaces list with columns: Name, Description, Type (Workspace / Personal Group / PersonalGroup), State (Active / Orphaned / Deleted / Removing / Not found), Capacity name, Capacity SKU Tier (Power BI Premium / PPU / Fabric F-SKU), Upgrade status.
Ribbon actions above the list (or in per-row … menu):
Refresh the list
Export as CSV (entire tenant inventory)
Edit access permissions (assign self / others as workspace admin / member / contributor / viewer)
Get temporary access (24-hour grant to enter a personal My Workspace of another user)
Restore deleted workspace (within retention period)
Reassign workspace (move between capacities / SKU tiers)
Rename workspace (rename via admin, e.g. for naming-convention compliance)
Delete workspace
Update workspace description
Per-row drill into per-workspace settings (members, capacity, retention, identity, monitoring).
Workspace Recycle bin (preview) — deleted items in retention period; admin sees this per workspace.
Backed by Fabric admin REST APIs: Get Groups As Admin, Get-PowerBIWorkspace, metadata scanning APIs (scanner APIs for incremental change tracking in large tenants).
The list reflects ALL workspaces (including My Workspaces) — this is the only admin surface where personal workspaces of other users are visible.
Workspace states — Active, Orphaned (no admin assigned), Deleted (in retention window), Removing (delete in progress), Not found.

Phase 2 — What Loom provides¶

Source: apps/fiab-console/app/admin/workspaces/page.tsx:

export default function AdminWorkspacesPage() {
  return (
    <AdminShell sectionTitle="Workspaces (tenant-wide)">
      <EmptyState icon="◒"
        title="Tenant workspace inventory"
        body="Every workspace, regardless of who owns it. Includes orphaned workspaces, deleted-but-retained workspaces, and capacity assignments. Admin-only listing."
        primaryAction={{ label: 'My workspaces', href: '/workspaces' }} />
    </AdminShell>
  );
}

One EmptyState with a primary action that just routes to the non-admin /workspaces (the user's own workspaces). No tenant-wide list. No admin actions. No backend route at /api/admin/workspaces. Note: /api/fabric/workspaces exists in the codebase but that's for the user's workspace view, not the admin tenant-wide view.

Phase 3 — Gap matrix¶

Fabric element	Loom	Severity
Tenant-wide workspace list	Absent	BLOCKER
Columns (Name, Description, Type, State, Capacity name, SKU Tier, Upgrade status)	Absent	BLOCKER
Refresh ribbon button	Absent	BLOCKER
Export CSV ribbon button	Absent	BLOCKER
Edit access permissions action	Absent	BLOCKER
Get temporary access (24-hour grant for personal workspaces)	Absent	BLOCKER
Restore deleted workspace	Absent	BLOCKER
Reassign workspace (capacity / SKU change)	Absent	MAJOR
Rename workspace from admin	Absent	MAJOR
Delete workspace from admin	Absent	BLOCKER
Update description from admin	Absent	MINOR
Per-row drill into workspace settings	Absent	BLOCKER
Workspace state badges (Active / Orphaned / Deleted / Removing / Not found)	Absent	BLOCKER
Backing admin REST API (`/api/admin/workspaces` GET / PATCH / DELETE)	Absent	BLOCKER
Recycle bin (preview) integration	Absent	MAJOR
Personal workspace visibility (admin can see all `My Workspace` workspaces)	Absent	BLOCKER
The "My workspaces" button	Present — but it sends users to `/workspaces` which is NOT the admin tenant-wide view; this is a misleading primary action on an admin-portal surface	MAJOR (mislabeled action)
Honest MessageBar disclosing what's missing	Absent	MAJOR

Phase 4 — Functional verification¶

Control	Expected	Actual
"My workspaces" button	Should go to admin tenant-wide workspace inventory	Routes to `/workspaces` (the user's own workspaces, NOT admin scope) — misleading
Tenant-wide list / table	Should render every workspace	Not rendered
Refresh / Export / Edit access	Should be on a ribbon	No ribbon, no buttons

The "My workspaces" button technically works (it routes), but its placement on an admin-tenant-wide page with the label "Tenant workspace inventory" is misleading — clicking it does NOT give you the tenant-wide view; it just leaves the admin portal and goes to your personal workspaces page.

Grade: F¶

Vaporware via misleading button + body copy. The body says "Every workspace, regardless of who owns it. Includes orphaned workspaces, deleted-but-retained workspaces". The button labelled "My workspaces" hints at being a route to this functionality, but it goes somewhere else entirely.
Minimum fix: drop the misleading primary button + replace with a Fluent MessageBar saying "Tenant-wide workspace inventory not implemented in this Loom build. Workspaces are managed per-resource in Azure (Synapse / Databricks / ADF / ADLA / AML resource groups). See /admin/capacity for the resource inventory." OR build a /api/admin/workspaces route that returns the union of all Loom-known workspaces (Synapse workspaces + Databricks workspaces + Azure Foundry hubs + ADF data factories + Cosmos accounts under the Loom RG) with the same columnar shape.
Until either ships, this is F.

Admin Portal — Workspaces (/admin/workspaces) — Parity Gap¶