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FilipVDR
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Helper II

How to set up different Data connections

At our organisation we already use a SQL server database with different scheme's, which is accessed by our SAS environment.

Within our SQL database we have already created different users like (Finance_01, Finance_02).

Within SAS we have grouped users X01, X02, X03 in a group which has the right to use user Finance_01.

 

Is something similar possible within PowerBI Desktop? Or do they need their account X01 on the database?

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ribisht17
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@FilipVDR 

 

You can get security groups created in Active Directory you can use those instead of individual users. This actually works well in many organizations as people raise a help desk ticket requesting access to specific report areas and our help desk people just have to add them to an AD group,

 

Power BI Security - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

 

Regards,

Ritesh

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