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Additional gateway security roles for Power BI

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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...