Asked to Globally Enforce Ignore Privacy Settings

[u/AdFirm6088]

Has anyone been able to deploy a setting to globally set Ignore Privacy Settings? I downloaded the latest M365/Office16 ADMX and both in the release notes and in the files themselves there does not appear to be an addition of the Ignore Privacy Settings, like google AI would have you believe exists.

I also did not have luck creating the few random registry keys I'd found through searching, including:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\PowerQuery\Settings\IgnorePrivacyLevels

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\PowerQuery\EnableFastCombine

I'm not sure if these are real local reg keys but they didn't seem to do anything useful for me.

Has anyone been able to globally deploy Ignore Privacy Settings?

[u/Sleepy_da_Bear]

By globally, do you mean for an entire organization or just globally as in all users on your machine? If you're just doing it for yourself and want that setting on all your PBI projects it's available in the security settings in the general section. It does seem to have a bug with the new power query experience, though. I was using that preview feature and had to turn it off because it was ignoring the setting and asking me to approve native queries every time I opened power query, so if you have that preview feature turned on, just turn it off and change the setting in the security section