Creating Security groups for use in PowerBI Admin Portal - do you guys just bug IT every time?

[mmace1]

I'm a Power BI Admin at my organization. Various settings in the PowerBI Admin Portal can be enabled/disabled for various Security Groups. e.g.

• Receive email notifications for service outages or incidents
• Use datasets across workspacesShare content with external users
• Certification

And many more useful things. 

Sounds great, but the only roles in Microsoft 365 that can create security groups, are Global Admin & User Admin.   I'm neither of those things. 

I'm curious how you folks go about this. 

• Bug IT everytime?
• Got IT to give you User Admin rights? 
• Avoid Security Groups in some what I'm not seeing? 

[GilbertQ]

Hi there

What I have done is to create a good working relationship with the Admins, if you also explain to them that creating the security groups will make everything more secure, they often will buy into it.

[mmace1]

@GilbertQ 

Thanks. Everytime you want to add (or remove) a user from a Security Group - is that also something you then need IT for? 

I'm having troulble finding if someone outside of Global Admin / User Admin can add/remove members from Security Groups.  Seems like no? 

[GilbertQ · Accepted solution]

Yeah, I just log a call to the IT department and they then add or remove the users.

Unfortunately it is only a Global Admin or designated Admins who can configure security groups.