User Role Management

[deanismael]

Hi guys,

We have published a number of large workbooks to the PBI service that apply RLS to restrict user access to sensitive data. Currently, we have to manually create roles in the Desktop and publish them back to the service for clients to securely access their own data. As the number of roles are increasing exponentially, the process of having to add roles locally and having to re-publish each time (especially for workbooks using incremental refresh policies) is extremely cumbersome. 

We can of course use claims based identity management to restrict access to data using the UserPrincipleName, but our preference would be to create and manage roles in the service itself. Does anyone know if it is actually possible to create and maintain roles in the PBI Service?

Thanks.

[deanismael]

Thanks @v-yuaj-msft . Hopefully they'll be support for that in the future but in the meantime we'll use the UserPrincipalName to govern RLS.

[v-yuaj-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @deanismael ,

You should define roles and rules in Power BI Desktop and assign them in Power BI service.

Row-level security (RLS) with Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

Currently Power bi service does not support to create the RLS roles.

Hope that's what you were looking for.

Best Regards,

Yuna

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