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We are excited to announce additional gateway security roles for Power BI! These additional security roles allow for more granularity in assigning roles for the gateway. The new change is that non-admins of the gateway can be allowed to create connections (data sources) on the gateway. This way, your gateway admins are not the bottleneck anymore for creating connections (data sources). Security roles There are three security roles for the on-premises data gateway. When you install an on-premises data gateway, you automatically become the admin of the gateway. There can be multiple admins on the gateway. The three security roles for the on-premises data gateway are: Admin : An admin can manage and update the on-premises data gateway. An admin is allowed to create connections (data sources) on the gateway. An admin is allowed to manage (add/delete) users with admin, connection creator, and connection creator with sharing roles on the gateway. An admin can also manage access to all connec...

Reporting Services installs with predefined roles that you can use to grant access to report server operations. Each predefined role describes a collection of related tasks. You can assign groups and user accounts to predefined roles to provide immediate access to report server operations. Predefined roles: The following table describes the predefined scope of the roles: Predefined role Scope Description Content Manager Role Item May manage content in the Report Server. This includes folders, reports, and resources. Publisher Role Item May publish reports and linked reports to the Report Server. Browser Role Item May view folders, reports, and subscribe to reports. Report Builder Role Item May view report definitions. My Reports Role Item May publish reports and linked reports; manag...