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toddpbi
Helper II
8 years ago

Row Level Security

Hello there.   Currently I am trying to implement row level security on my data model. My company is not allowing the usage of Power BI service, which rules out any chances of me being able to use ...
Report server RLS row level security
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Anonymous
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8 years ago
Hi toddpbi,

We have used SSAS Tabular RLS with Power BI RS On-Prem. Works well, I'm not sure why you think you would still need to publish to the cloud, I might be missing part of your requirement?

Regards
Rob

 

 

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    Anonymous
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    8 years ago

    Anonymous Sorry to ask but have you really been able to use RLS SSAS with Power BI Report Server? How did you do that? How did you get the role been recognized in Power BI?

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      Anonymous
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      8 years ago
      Hi Anonymous,

       

      Yes honest we have, it works well. :)

       

      There are a few pre-requisites

       

      You have to be using windows active directory domain user security, and your PBI users need to be authenticated logged in users.

       

      We are using the Oct 2017 PBI Desktop and PBIRS on-prem, on a server on the domain. Not sure if it works with versions earlier than this.

       

      We have SQL Server 2016 SSAS Tabular supporting our data model. And we use the SSAS Tab DM as the data source for the PBI report. Not a DM in PowerBI. (Direct Query like connection)

       

      The roles are created and managed in SSAS Tabular, PBI is just the consumer.

       

      We do have the SQLserver, SSAS Tab service and PBIRS all running on the same server. I think there maybe some extra setup needed if you distribute these elements.

       

      There are some online resources for this, try Guy In A Cube for example.

       

      Hope that helps

      Rob

       

       

       

       

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
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        8 years ago

        Thank you Anonymous. I have tried many times these steps and for several weeks now, I am still not able to get Power BI to filter the row according to my windows login. The puzzeling thing is that the Tabular model works well in excel or even SSRS and get it to recognize role A using the *Roles* keyword in the connection string. I'm using the following connection string: Data Source=MyServerName\TABULARSERVER;Initial Catalog=TestRLS;Roles=A; 

         

        But such filtering doesn't work in Power BI. 

         

        In your SSAS Tabular, if you created several roles - say "role A", "role B" and "role C" - how do you get power bi to filter the report using say "role A"?