--- title: Create Cross-Tenant OneLake Shortcuts in Microsoft... description: This tutorial shows how to set up Cross-Tenant Delegated OneLake Shortcuts in Microsoft Fabric to share data between two tenants without copying it. A consumer... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/create-cross-tenant-onelake-shortcuts-in-microsoft-fabric-step-by-step-tutorial-jguo1yxfw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Create Cross-Tenant OneLake Shortcuts in Microsoft Fabric | Step-by-Step Tutorial | daily.dev og:description: This tutorial shows how to set up Cross-Tenant Delegated OneLake Shortcuts in Microsoft Fabric to share data between two tenants without copying it. A consumer... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/create-cross-tenant-onelake-shortcuts-in-microsoft-fabric-step-by-step-tutorial-jguo1yxfw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jGUO1YXFW.png og:image:alt: Create Cross-Tenant OneLake Shortcuts in Microsoft Fabric | Step-by-Step Tutorial og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Create Cross-Tenant OneLake Shortcuts in Microsoft Fabric | Step-by-Step Tutorial **[C\# Corner](https://daily.dev/sources/csharpcorner)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary This tutorial shows how to set up Cross-Tenant Delegated OneLake Shortcuts in Microsoft Fabric to share data between two tenants without copying it. A consumer tenant accesses selected data from a producer tenant's lakehouse through a shortcut, using a service principal registered in Microsoft Entra ID. The walkthrough covers creating two Fabric tenants and lakehouses, uploading CSV files, setting up OneLake security roles, and configuring the shortcut. It also shows transforming the CSVs into Delta tables and building a Power BI semantic model and report on the cross-tenant data. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I access data from another organization's OneLake tenant in Microsoft Fabric without copying it? Use a cross-tenant delegated OneLake shortcut, which lets a consumer tenant access selected data from a producer tenant's lakehouse through a shortcut rather than replicating the data. The connection is authenticated via a service principal registered in Microsoft Entra ID, with OneLake security roles controlling exactly which data the consumer can read. _Developers wiring up multi-tenant Fabric data sharing can track implementation guides like this on daily.dev._ ### What is the difference between delegated authentication and pass-through authentication in Microsoft Fabric shortcuts? Delegated authentication relies on a registered service principal with explicit OneLake security permissions to access data on behalf of the consumer tenant, while pass-through authentication uses the end user's own identity. Cross-tenant OneLake shortcuts specifically use the delegated, service-principal-based model to connect producer and consumer tenants securely. _Engineers deciding between Fabric authentication models can keep up with comparisons like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Sharing a Lakehouse in Microsoft Fabric](https://daily.dev/posts/sharing-a-lakehouse-in-microsoft-fabric-0rsq8tmf4) · C\# Corner · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Accessing Microsoft Fabric data locally with OneLake file explorer](https://daily.dev/posts/accessing-microsoft-fabric-data-locally-with-onelake-file-explorer-caaurpogs) · The Art of Simplicity · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Ways to Load Data into a Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse: Upload Files](https://daily.dev/posts/ways-to-load-data-into-a-microsoft-fabric-lakehouse-upload-files-e0pp8tzi4) · C\# Corner · 3 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#data-engineering](https://daily.dev/tags/data-engineering), [#power-bi](https://daily.dev/tags/power-bi), [#microsoft-fabric](https://daily.dev/tags/microsoft-fabric) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/create-cross-tenant-onelake-shortcuts-in-microsoft-fabric-step-by-step-tutorial-jguo1yxfw) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Create Cross-Tenant OneLake Shortcuts in Microsoft Fabric | Step-by-Step Tutorial","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/create-cross-tenant-onelake-shortcuts-in-microsoft-fabric-step-by-step-tutorial-jguo1yxfw","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/create-cross-tenant-onelake-shortcuts-in-microsoft-fabric-step-by-step-tutorial-jguo1yxfw"},"datePublished":"2026-11-02T12:46:26.360Z","dateModified":"2026-11-02T12:46:52.748Z","description":"This tutorial shows how to set up Cross-Tenant Delegated OneLake Shortcuts in Microsoft Fabric to share data between two tenants without copying it. 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