Power BI administrator access to users' My Workspace content

[leesm1thy]

A recent blog post by Melissa Coates (link) about what is accessible to a tenant's Power BI administrator in turn links to an older post of hers that suggests that "a Power BI administrator can grant themselves permission to [My Workspace] content".

Could anyone give me some pointers on how to do this? I am the PBI administrator for my organisation and am able to see the creation of Dataset and Report artefacts but cannot access them unless I send a request to the author.

[chancep19]

Hi I'm unable to give admin access to my team members, i'm the owner of the workspace and see that I have admin powers but i can only give my team members read and reshare access

[Anonymous]

I don't think a PBI tenant admin can grant themselves access to a user's "My workspace" workspace.  I think that is by design.  However, you can grant yourself access to all other workspaces.  To do so:

1) Open the PBI admin portal.  (Power BI)

2) In the left-hand navigation menu, click on 'Workspaces'.

3) Click on the vertical ellipses next to the desired workspace Name.

4) In the dialog that opens, add yourself to the e-mail address field, select your role, and click on 'Add'.

[GilbertQ]

Hi there

As per Melissa's blog post, you can only grant that access to the New (V2) workspaces.

[leesm1thy]

Thanks for the reply. The second blog I linked to has this section which certainly seems to suggest that a PBI admin can grant themselves permission even to My Workspace content - is this, then, just not the case?

[GilbertQ]

I had a look and I cannot for the life of me find out where the syntax is for the admin to take control.