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abayless
Advocate II
Advocate IIAdmin settings - Dataset Security
I need some clarification on exactly what the "Block republish and disable package refresh" setting under the Dataset Security group does. It goes on to say "Disable package refresh, and only allow t...
otravers
Community Champion
Community Champion"Package refresh" refers to loading a PBIX file in the service as both a dataset and a report (unless it's a thin Live Connection report, in which case there's no dataset). That excludes dataflows, and doesn't trigger a dataset refresh.
The "block republish" option applies in the context of deployment pipelines, I'm not sure whether it affects other parts of the Power BI ecosystem (API calls maybe?). Hopefully other people will chime in, I agree that this is poorly documented and worded.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/deployment-pipelines-process