Microsoft Power BI Information Service

[HarrisburgUSysAdmin]

Does Microsoft Power BI Information Service need to be in global admins? I have been auditing our Azure AD roles and found Microsoft Power BI Information Service listed as a global admin. Does seem correct.

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• ID: 5f546db7-20fa-c87d-f7a4-a0a931f47e05
• Version Independent ID: 0180dfc6-d05d-8517-ec8c-94723f0f832e
• Content: Power BI admin portal - Power BI
• Content Source: powerbi-docs/service-admin-portal.md
• Service: powerbi
• Sub-service: powerbi-admin
• GitHub Login: @kfollis
• Microsoft Alias: kfollis

[kfollis]

Hi @HarrisburgUSysAdmin - thanks for the question. I'm verifying with our engineering team, but this appears to be related to an older product version. I located this related community thread: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-Query/What-is-the-quot-Microsoft-Power-BI-Information-Service-quot/td-p/568946 which may help to resolve this for you. I'll follow up with any additional info I can get.

[kfollis]

Hi @HarrisburgUSysAdmin - I confirmed that the account you see in global admins is a legacy artifact of a previous version of Power BI (original implementation). It's not used today and should be safe to remove.

Closing the issue.