You manage a Power BI workspace that uses the new workspace experience. A semantic model named SalesModel in the workspace has row-level security (RLS) roles that restrict data by region. Users in the NorthAmericaSales Azure AD security group are assigned the Member workspace role so they can build their own reports. When they connect to SalesModel from Excel by using Analyze in Excel, they can see data for all regions.
You must ensure that RLS filters are enforced for these users while still allowing them to create new reports that use SalesModel. What should you do?
Change the group's workspace role to Viewer and grant (or keep) Build permission on SalesModel.
Publish SalesModel to a new workspace and share it by using an app.
Add the NorthAmericaSales group to the existing RLS role for SalesModel.
Remove the Build permission on SalesModel from the NorthAmericaSales group.
RLS is enforced only for users who have the Viewer workspace role. Members, Contributors, and Admins have edit permission on the semantic model and bypass RLS filters. Granting or removing Build permission alone will not change that behavior.
Changing the group's role to Viewer ensures that RLS is applied. Viewers cannot build new content unless they also have Build permission on the specific semantic model, so you must keep or grant that permission. After the change, the users retain the ability to analyze and build reports (because of Build permission) while their queries are filtered by the RLS roles.
Adding the group to an RLS role, removing Build permission, or moving the model to another workspace would not make RLS effective for Members who inherently bypass RLS.
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