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Take control of Fabric Identities limit for your tenant (Generally Available)

Fabric Identity governance at scale just got easier. We are introducing a new tenant admin setting that gives you control over the maximum number of Fabric identities (hence Workspace identities) in your organization.

With this update, Fabric tenant admins can:

  • Scale beyond previous constraint — the default limit for number of Fabric identities in an organization increases from 1,000 to 10,000 identities.
  • Set custom limits for how many Fabric identities can be created in their tenant.
  • Manage limits programmatically by using the Update Tenant Setting REST API.

How it works

The new setting “Define maximum number of Fabric identities in a tenant” is located in the Fabric Admin portal in Tenant settings, within Developer settings.

When the setting is disabled (the default), your tenant supports up to 10,000 Fabric identities — a 10x increase from the previous limit. Enable the setting to specify your own maximum. The value you enter becomes the upper limit for Fabric identity creation across your tenant.

Note: Fabric doesn’t validate that your custom limit falls within your Entra ID resource quota. Before setting a custom limit, check your organization’s Entra ID service limits.

If a workspace admin tries to create a new workspace identity that would exceed the limit, they’ll see a clear error message explaining the reason.

Figure1. Configuring Maximum number of Fabric identities in a tenant

You can also manage this setting programmatically using the Update Tenant Setting API.

Sample HTTP request:

POST https://api.fabric.microsoft.com/v1/admin/tenantsettings/ConfigureFabricIdentityTenantLimit/update
{ 
  "enabled": true, 
  "properties": [ 
    { 
      "name": "FabricIdentityTenantLimit", 
      "value": "100", 
      "type": "int" 
    } 
  ] 
}

Sample JSON response:

Status code: 200

{ 
  "tenantSettings": [ 
    { 
      "settingName": "ConfigureFabricIdentityTenantLimit", 
      "title": "Define maximum number of Fabric identities in a tenant", 
      "enabled": true, 
      "canSpecifySecurityGroups": false, 
      "tenantSettingGroup": "Developer settings", 
      "properties": [ 
        { 
          "name": "FabricIdentityTenantLimit", 
          "value": "100", 
          "type": "Integer" 
        } 
      ] 
    } 
  ] 
}

To learn more about identities in Fabric, refer to the Workspace identity documentation.

For more information about all the tenant admin settings in Fabric, refer to the Tenant settings index.

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