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Object-Level Security in Power BI

Chris Webb checks out Object-Level Security:

If you have sensitive data in your Power BI dataset you may need to stop some users seeing the data in certain columns or measures. There is only one way to achieve this: you have to use Object Level Security (OLS) in your dataset. It’s not enough to exclude those measures or columns from your reports or to hide them, because there will always be ways for enterprising users to see data they shouldn’t be allowed to see. However the problem with OLS up to now is that it didn’t play nicely with Power BI reports and so you had to create multiple versions of the same report for different security roles. The good news is that there’s now a way to create one report connected to a dataset with OLS and have it display different columns and measures to users with different permissions.

And then watch as Chris combines Row-Level Security with Object-Level Security to make it nicer for users but probably a mess for maintainers.