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Privacy Levels control for data sources in Power BI Service

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on 24 Jul 2018 19:20:52

Allow setting Privacy Levels for data sources when publishing to Power BI Service (without the need of Gateway).

Right now in Power BI Service, Privacy Levels are deduced from the Authentication used for each Data Source. Anonymous authentication implies "Public" privacy level. Organizational authentication implies "Organizational" privacy level. Privacy levels specified in the Desktop are completely ignored when publishing online.


As a result it's impossible to join Organizational data with Organizational Web Service, because for Web.Content it is mandatory to use Anonymous authentication (with authorization Token in the Query string for example) when the parameters are passed in the Content body.


https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Privacy-Levels-control-where-is-it/td-p/468091


On-Premises Data Gateway does not support OAuth2 authentication, so it's impossible to connect to the data with Organizational (Office 365) credentials.

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Leo Corone on 26 Dec 2022 14:48:04

RE: Privacy Levels control for data sources in Power BI Service

Highly needed in PowerBI report server as well.As such it is not possible to get data from web API in most scenarios.