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mluong212
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9 years ago
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Prevent PBIX from unauthorized download

Hi all,   I am new to power BI and I am wondering if there is anyone know how to prevent your power bi file from being downloaded after publishing them to the organization's workspace?   I have c...
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  • GilbertQ's avatar
    GilbertQ
    9 years ago

    Hi mluong212

     

    One of the things that you can do is instead of making the users members of the App Workspace, rather let them consume the data via the Apps. This will mean then that they get a Read-Only copy. Which will not give them the option to download the PBIX file.

     

    Or what you can do is to Share the Dashboards with the users, this once again is Read-Only which will mean that they will not be able to download the PBIX file.

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GilbertQ
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9 years ago

Hi mluong212

 

One of the things that you can do is instead of making the users members of the App Workspace, rather let them consume the data via the Apps. This will mean then that they get a Read-Only copy. Which will not give them the option to download the PBIX file.

 

Or what you can do is to Share the Dashboards with the users, this once again is Read-Only which will mean that they will not be able to download the PBIX file.

  • mluong212's avatar
    mluong212
    Frequent Visitor
    9 years ago

    Thank you for responding guavaq - I am looking into making App workspace right now.

    • cplesner's avatar
      cplesner
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      9 years ago

      Problem with this is that users then can't create their own reports based on the dataset, or ?

       

      I have a scenario where we would like to maintain the Dataset and let users connect to the workspace and create their own reports. It's not possible today, unless they are members with edit rights to the workspace - which then means that they can download the pbix...

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
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        8 years ago

        cplesnerI have the same scenario. I would like to let the users create reports on the dataset. But i would like to prevent that they can download the dataset as pbix-file. Do you know a solution for that?