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Powe BI Security Whitepaper
gopowerbi - Yes, that is my understanding as well (your summary at the end). I think that's why Anonymous and I were so certain that the second highlighted statement had to be incorrect. If it was indeed as stated, then Anonymous and I have spent the last couple years fundamentally not understanding how Power BI works!
The puprose of a refresh is to have your data as updated as you want (schedule daily/weekly/... refresh). Why would you need a refresh if you get the data instantly when you run the query/open a dashboard or refresh? Besides that, there is the possibility to create a LiveConnection between Azure SQL Server ( = cloud) and Power BI. I understood it in this way: by getting your data through a live connection, the data is stored into the cloud but temporary.
Regarding to "Power BI Security Whitepapre" in the first sentence of this link you can download the word document. In the chapter "Data Storage and Movement" is written the text I quoted above, which is about the location of the data you work with.
My post is not about whether the data is refreshed or not but about the security of it. I do not have many doubts about power bi cloud security, but there may be some people in a company who are sceptical about all the cloud history and do not want to "publish" sensitive data onto the cloud.
gopowerbiGreg_Deckler The highlighted portion that is causing confusion is wrong. I reached out to a contact at Microsoft and they will get the change implemented in the white paper soon. Taking that out, the rest of the white paper does a good job explaining all the "States" of data at rest or in transition.
- Greg_Deckler
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Thanks Anonymous, glad I'm not crazy!
Greg_Deckler I felt the same. "reached out to a Microsoft contact" = Either I missed something unforgivable, or this is an error... I hope this is an error. :)
I also had doubt about this but I wanted to ask to get sure this is not true :robotindifferent: .
To sum up:
Power BI is based on Azure -> a company's data will do the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) procedure (exeption it is a livequery), which means the dataset, reports and dashboards will be saved on Azure BLOB, while the metadata will be saved in an Azure SQL Server. -> everything is on the cloud but it is encrypted (or atleast it should be since Q3 2016). right?