How to manage the data catalog with the data governance admin experience
Note
The Microsoft Purview Data Catalog is changing its name to Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog. All the features will stay the same. You'll see the name change when the new Microsoft Purview Data Governance experience is generally available in your region. Check the name in your region.
This article talks about the data governance admin experience, that is part of the Microsoft Purview portal Solution Settings for the Data Catalog application.
In the data governance admin experience, you can manage the data governance settings applicable to the entire data catalog in one place.
In the data governance admin experience, users in the data governance administrator role can configure data catalog roles and permissions and self-service analytics. As we continue to build this feature, more settings will be available here in the future.
As a data governance administrator with a data governance admin role, here's how you can configure admin settings such as roles and permissions and self-service analytics it the Solution Settings for Data Catalog application, to manage the data governance settings applicable to the entire data catalog.
In this article you'll learn:
Prerequisites
To use the data governance admin experience, you need to be in the tenant-level data governance admin role.
Data catalog solution settings
You can use the data governance admin experience in the Microsoft Purview portal.
- In the Microsoft Purview portal, select Settings.
- Under Solution Settings select Data Catalog.
- On the left you can see the menu for roles and permissions and self service analytics.
How to set up roles and permissions
The roles and permissions item has moved from the data catalog solution to the solution settings, but the steps for applying those permissions are still the same. For more information about setting up roles and permissions for your users, see the data governance permissions documentation.
How to use self service analytics and insights (Preview)
Self-service analytics and insights is a set of data, tools, and platforms that enable business users to access, analyze, and generate insights from data independently by bringing their own tools and compute. For full information on how to use this new feature, see the self-service analytics and insights article.