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Users in Site Settings do not work
The problem turned out to be PEBKAC. I didn't understand that a user who is a Sys Admin doesn't automatically get any permissions to the content structure with the Browse page at all.
I have PowerBIRS and SSRS installed in seperate instances on the same server using the same service account.
If I log into the WebUI as a user who is member of BUILTIN\Administrators on the PowerBI instance I can edit the site settings and add new users and groups to the "System Administrator" and "System User" roles, but those users can't subsequently log in. They get the message in the attached screen cap.
HOWEVER, If I perform the exact same steps on the vanilla SSRS instance, the user role assignment works fine.
So there must be some difference in the config between the two instances, rather than an infrastructure issue.
How can I make the RBAC work in PowerBI RS?
I had some similar problem when I upgraded from preview version to GA. The solution in my case was recreate the report server database.
