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glenncogar
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8 years ago
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User access review for Power BI reports

My organisation would like to implement regular 'user access reviews' (as part of our governance on usage) on:   - content (reports, etc) published to the Power BI service, and - who that content ...
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v-danhe-msft
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8 years ago

Hi glenncogar,

 

You can use Power BI reports and dashboards API to list dashboards and reports: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/reports/getreportingroup. 

 

But currently there is no rest API to list shared users for each dashboard or report. You can go to Audit Log and search share dashboards/reports activities, find shared user by clicking each activity. 

 

Reports - Get Report In Group (Power BI REST APIs ...

docs.microsoft.com

Returns the specified report from the specified workspace. Required scope: Report.ReadWrite.All or Report.Read.All To set the permissions scope, see Register an app.

 

Regards,

Daniel He

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glenncogar
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8 years ago

Thanks for your reply Daniel,

 

your description of how to access the facilities currently available in Power BI was very helpful.

 

Based on your reply, I think I need to suggest to Microsoft that there are some governance/admin features they need to provide so that organisations can govern the reports and dashboards published and shared.

 

I have not really used the API feautes of Power BI yet so I'll try them out to see how close I can get to what we need.

 

Thanks for your help.  I hope that others also find this useful.

 

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    7 years ago

    glenncogar Hi! Were you able to find a way to get the list of users whom reports have been shared with?

     

     

    Regards,

     

    Ferdinand