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SamKrygsheld
Advocate II
4 years ago

Security roles not functioning the same after Fall 2021 update

I also posted this as an Idea in Issues, but I'm also posting here to see if I can attach an example in the comments. Here's the original message. (Edit: It does not seem possible to attach a dashboa...
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belvoir99
Resolver III
4 years ago

SamKrygsheld 

We have an active Power BI Embedded service with hundreds of users. This afternoon a user complained that they could see other users' data - that's never happened before. The PBIX file has not been updated, and an inspection of the website code has not revealed any changes (and no changes have been made today).

I have reinstalled a version of the PBIX from July and the problem persists, so I'm fairly certain it's not the recent update of the Desktop software. Evidence is starting to point to MS code running Embedded in the Service.

I saw on one of your posts that Microsoft are investigating. They are welcome to get in touch with me (if they read this), although to be honest I don't think we can tell them much as we haven't changed anything today.

We have had to take down the service this evening. We will have to tell our users at 8am GMT tomorrow that there is no service. This would be the first time since we began 3+ years ago. I am hoping that Microsoft are urgently looking into this.

Please let me know if you find out anything else, thanks! And thanks for posting.

BTW, i don't use calculated columns in the RLS model part of the PBIX.