Understanding security and permissions

There are several levels of security and permissions within the Power BI Service. It is important to understand these various permission levels in order to ensure that users can only access the appropriate reports, dashboards, apps, and data.

The main levels of permissions within Power BI are as follows:

• Workspace permissions
• Object permissions (dashboards, reports, and datasets)
• Row-Level Security (RLS)

Workspace permissions

Workspaces serve as logical containers in which we can store dashboards, reports, workbooks, datasets, and dataflows. So far, we have only worked with a single report and dataset. But workspaces can contain dozens or even hundreds of different dashboards, reports...