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PhillipWeeks
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Admin Impersonating power BI user Power BI Service

I am an admin/owner of 40+ reports assigned to 77 users, all having some combination of RLS and app groupings.  It would be convenient, if after I configured a user, I could somehow impersonate that user in the cloud, (not desktop) so I could peruse all his reporting access at once.  I have used the API admin functions to creat a permission access reporting and short of changing the users 365 password , SSO and multi-factor off,   and logging in as him, I see no way to easily accomplish this.  

Comments welcomed.

Phillip

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GilbertQ
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Hi @PhillipWeeks 

 

As it stands today, you can only test the RLS on the reports that are in the same workspace as the semantic model is. the only other way I can think of doing this is to use DAX studio and then connect to the semantic model and impersonating the user on login.

 

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GilbertQ
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Hi @PhillipWeeks 

 

As it stands today, you can only test the RLS on the reports that are in the same workspace as the semantic model is. the only other way I can think of doing this is to use DAX studio and then connect to the semantic model and impersonating the user on login.

 

GilbertQ_0-1713478949561.png

 





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