How to grant individual users access to create Fabric items/workloads
I was recently working with a customer where I was showing them the awesome new features of Microsoft fabric. I then created a workspace and attempted to grant the individual users access to the workspace to create fabric items or workloads. When the users went into the app workspace with the fabric settings, enabled, the users could not create any…
Creating “Read” permissions on reports & datasets (Allowing to view datasets from remote apps)
I was recently doing some testing with regards to permissions on datasets in the Power BI Service, and I came across two things. First, was that I found I could create access to a dataset where the user’s permission was “Read” I subsequently found that when a user has read permissions to a dataset, they can access it even if…
Power BI – Which Groups can be used to set Permissions in Power BI
There are quite a few areas where Power BI can assign permissions. Below is a list of which permissions can be assigned by which Groups that are available in Power BI. Explanation of Groups Security Group This is also known as an Active Directory Security Group. This group lives within Active Directory and Azure Active Directory. It is where you…
Power BI – Bulk Changing Permissions (Read, Reshare & Build) on Datasets
I recently had a challenge where a report was shared with a whole lot of people (Which is a good thing!). The challenge was that when you share reports, by default it has the option to “Reshare” as shown below. Whilst this sometimes is what is required, I always suggest to people to remove this option and rather manage it…