topic when add Domain's security group to RLS of Power BI Report Server , error occured in report page in Report Server

when add Domain's security group to RLS of Power BI Report Server , error occured in report page

Meng — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 05:59:30 GMT

Hi all

The security group named ‘PBIGroup’ have crteated already in domain environment, while add the ‘PBIGroup’ to the RLS on Web site , there is no error in current page , but go to report page, the error "This visual contains restricted data.See details" occured for every visuals. while add individual user account to this rls box, the report page works well.

i refer to the link Row-level security (RLS) in Power BI Report Server - Power BI | Microsoft Docs.

there is a limit like below, but there is no other details or configuration guidance to describe the "NTLM or Kerberos authentication"

so how can i make the security group work for the RLS of Power BI Report Server, there is other steps is missing?

the document link Configure Kerberos to use Power BI reports - Power BI | Microsoft Docs is the right one to solve this group rls issue ?

note: the data source is SQL Server

any suggestions is welcome , thank you for your help!

Best Regards

Amy

Re: when add Domain's security group to RLS of Power BI Report Server , error occured in report page

FarhanAhmed — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 08:45:39 GMT

The username it not resolving correctly as defined in the RLS table that you had created.

Try create measure

_user = USERPRINCIPALNAME()

and see that the names in RLS table and this measures matched.

Re: when add Domain's security group to RLS of Power BI Report Server , error occured in report page

v-luwang-msft — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 08:00:50 GMT

Hi Meng ,

The format that your report uses locally to configure permissions is DOMAIN\User or user@contoso.com ?

According the article you provided, it mentioned:

Within Power BI Desktop, username() returns a user in the format of DOMAIN\User and userprincipalname() returns a user in the format of user@contoso.com.

Within Power BI Report Server, username() and userprincipalname() both return the user's User Principal Name (UPN), which is similar to an email address.

If you're using custom authentication in Power BI Report Server, it returns the username format you’ve set up for users.

And about NTLM or Kerberos authentication,you could refer the following article:

Configure Kerberos to use Power BI reports

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Best Regards

Lucien

Re: when add Domain's security group to RLS of Power BI Report Server , error occured in report page

v-luwang-msft — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 02:46:57 GMT

Hi Meng ,

Has your problem been solved, if so, please consider Accept a correct reply as the solution or share your own solution to help others find it.

Best Regards
Lucien

Re: when add Domain's security group to RLS of Power BI Report Server , error occured in report page

Meng — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 02:21:18 GMT

hi all,

this issue has been solved. to make the security group works in RLS of Power BI Report Server, just to follow 2 steps , which refer to the document Configure Kerberos to use Power BI reports - Power BI | Microsoft Docs :

1.go to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Power BI Report Server\PBIRS\ReportServer, find rsreportserver.config file, add RSWindowsNegotiate to Authentication/AuthenticationTypes section of this file.

like this :

stop and start the report server to make sure the changes take effect

2. go to "Active Directory Users and Computers", which domain admin know where it is.

choose item "Computer", choose the machine account (a server , which power bi report server installed on),
Right click on the report server service account and select Properties.
Select the Delegation tab.
Select Trust this computer for delegation to specified services only.
Select Use any authentication protocol.
Under the Services to which this account can present delegated credentials: select Add.
In the new dialog, select Users or Computers.
Enter the service account for the SQL Server service and select Ok.
Select the SQL Server service' SPN ( It will begin with MSSQLSvc.3).
Select OK. You should see the SPN in the list now.
Select Ok.
stop and start the Power BI Report Server.

in this document Configure Kerberos to use Power BI reports - Power BI | Microsoft Docs, it takes data source "SQL Server Analysis Services" (which links to Analysis Services) as a example to configurate Kerberos for Power bi report server. so the steps maybe complex, and i haven't test it for data source "SQL Server Analysis Services".

while in my situation, the data source is SQL Server, find no needs to configurate for the SPN of SQL Server service and SQL Browser service, just follow steps like above. thanks.