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SharePoint Group Permissions to Power BI Semantic Model
Hi Christine, I should have specified that I created a Communication SharePoint site. From what I read a M365 group is only created for a Teams SharePoint site.
Most Valuable ProfessionalI guess you can create an Azure Active Directory security group instead and share the various things with the security group then if you don't need the SP site-- if you don't have permission to create one, your IT should be willing to set one up for you.
That's a big assumption. It doesn't make sense that we can't use custom groups created in SharePoint/OneDrive or create new ones specifically for Power BI without having to get IT involved.
- christinepayton
You can't even use SharePoint groups in other top-level SharePoint sites, only subsites of the site collection - they don't exist outside that, that's why they can't be used in Power BI. That's probably part of why Microsoft introduced M365 groups with team sites - to give a security group that can be used elsewhere. Communication sites don't create a group that can be used outside of SP though, it is what it is.
