Restricting the external sharing of Power BI reports

Your users can share dashboards with specific users outside of your organization (as opposed to the open, anonymous access that the Publish to web option permits). As in the previous recipe, we could limit this ability to a specific security group (or multiple). However, in this recipe, we'll disable the ability altogether.

Getting ready

You must be an O365 global admin or Power BI service administrator to complete the steps in this recipe.

How to do it…

1. Go to Power BI at app.powerbi.com.
2. Select the settings wheel | Admin portal:

   Figure 7.26 – The Admin portal link in Power BI

3. Select Tenant settings from the left-hand menu.
4. Scroll down to the Export and sharing settings section.
5. Expand Share content with external users:

   Figure 7.27 – Share content with external users setting enabled with entire organization scope in Power BI

6. Switch the Enabled toggle button to the off...