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SharePoint Group Permissions to Power BI Semantic Model
Hi, Currently, we have a Power BI semantic model with restricted access, dashboards were build using data from this model, dashboards were added to a SharePoint site. With regards to permiss...
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
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Most Valuable ProfessionalYou 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.