New Member Question - Power Bi Configuration fo keeping data private within corporate network.....

[tmanala]

I have been working with Power Bi desktop and the free Power Bi web account.

I am really excited about this tool and can see how much it would help us with reporting in many ways.

Can anyone direct me to a thread or document that explains how to setup/configure Power Bi for use within our organization where we can keep all reports and data secured-private.  We use SharePoint 365 online and would be sharing Power Bi reports on our SharePoint pages.

Our security team and SIO's are very very cautious about new technologies so I would need some very clear documents to demonstrate that corporate security can be maintained by using this tool beyond just a desktop application.

Any suggestions, links to other sources or documents by anyone is greatly appreciated.

Also if this is not the right forum to post this question just let me know where it should be posted and I will post it there.

Thank You  - Merry Christmas.

[tmanala]

Eno1978 and smoupre - thanks for the info... my objective is to be able to use the Power Bi desktop to build reports that are published to the Power Bi web and also shared on our SharePoint Online pages while keeping access to any data/report to internal company employees.

I will look through your suggested methods and read thru the Power Bi documuments to further educate myself.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

@tmanala,

When following the instructions in this article  to embed Power BI report to SharePoint Online page, security is not a issue. Unless you grant users access to the report in Power BI Service, users will not be able to view the report from SharePoint entry.

Regards,
Lydia

[Seth_C_Bauer]

@tmanala In conjunction with what has been mentioned already in terms of removing a permission, you can tell your security team that there are multiple different ways in which to control access to Power BI or other applications within your tenant. Conditional Access and Multi-Factor Authentication via Azure Active Directory.

There is also row level security that you can apply to the model to restrict the information that users see.

[Greg_Deckler]

In the Power BI Service, go to the gear icon in the upper-right and go to "Admin portal". In "Tenant settings" disable sharing with external users and Publish to Web.