Converting from Power BI Server user to Service

[sara_sameer]

Hello, I've been using Power BI Report Server (On - Premise) to publish the reports,

As we're growing in report publishing and needing features that are supported in Microsoft service not server, we were planning to move from the server to service but I had some concers about the privacy. how the privacy works and when im publishing the data to microsoft fabric account when buying license and stuff does the Microsoft has access to the data or how does it work?

From where can i read about the policies and information about privacy of my reports?

And our main goal for converting to service to make the real time data connection which we cannot do it in the server, will it affect if I will have a lot of reports that will require to have real time data refreshes or connections?

[MallikarjunaBan]

i have encrypted data in snowflake can i decrypt in power bi service on the fly while i use direct query or can i achive by having udf at report server level .as of now i use cognos bi and snowflake encrypted data where i am creating udf to decrypt on the fly in cognos while using direct query .need same functionality in power bi can we do it with byok pls confirm

[v-jianpeng-msft]

Your ideas is so great @lbendlin 

Hi, @sara_sameer 

You can set the privacy level of the connection when you establish a gateway connection in Power BI, and the following privacy levels are common:

Understand Power BI Desktop privacy levels - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

You can see how Power BI is implemented when it comes to data security in the schematic below:

Power BI Security - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

As the documentation provided by super user, you can also learn from it how Power BI enables data protection.
As you mentioned, you move your reports to Power BI Service, you need to configure gateway connectivity for your reports to maintain real-time connectivity for your reports.

Best Regards

Jianpeng Li

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[MallikarjunaBan]

can i decrypt data in power bi which has been encrypted at snowflake Db.its possible in cognos bi can we achieve same in power bi on the fly using direct query in service level or using power bi report server .in cognos we have created few udf so we could decrypt on the fly need same in power bi  pls investigate 

[lbendlin]

Your question is a bit too broad. Try narrowing it down a bit.

Data protection in Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

[sara_sameer]

When there's connection between report or visual to database, does microsoft has access to view and use my data or not

[lbendlin · Accepted solution]

Read about BYOK. All data is encrypted and Microsoft will only decrypt it if you explicitly ask them to in DLP scenarios.

[MallikarjunaBan]

snowflake encrypted data can we decrypt at power bi level