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godwinvarghese
7 years agoRegular Visitor
User can see all data even if RLS enabled on Power BI Report Server
Hi, I implemented RLS on my power BI report server (January 2019) and it went success. Implemented the roles and users can access only the data which they are assigned to. But the problem is, w...
d_gosbell
7 years agoSuper User
I'm not from MS, but I've been working with the tabular engine since it was first released. Greg's answer is 100% correct. The RLS filters are an extra DAX filter that is applied at query time. The underlying data is not physically partitioned, the PBIX file contains all the data for all the roles.
So the key take away here is that if you have enabled RLS in a Power BI file you should not enable end users that are not allowed to see all the data to download the pbix file.
godwinvarghese
7 years agoRegular Visitor
do we have any feature/ Process to disable the download option for the end users from downloading the data from power BI server?