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Advocate IIFabric SharePoint Shortcut - Service Principle
Hi libpekin ,
Thank you for validating this in detail. Based on current Microsoft documentation, Service Principal app only authentication in Fabric and Power BI is mainly supported for REST APIs and specific scenarios, while SharePoint Online connectors rely on delegated user authentication with user context. Because of this, the initial connection using a Service Principal may succeed, but refresh operations on SharePoint files or folders can fail as they require delegated permissions.At present, there is no explicit Microsoft Learn document that directly states this limitation for Fabric SharePoint shortcuts, but the behavior aligns with how authentication is documented across these services, so this can be treated as a current limitation rather than a fully supported scenario.
please go through with the below document hope it may resolve your Issue:
Embed Power BI content in an embedded analytics application with service principal and an application secret - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
Power BI Desktop OneDrive and SharePoint integration - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
Authentication vs. authorization - Microsoft identity platform | Microsoft Learn
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Advocate IILodha_Jaydeep was your solution implemented with harepoint server or sharepoint online. I'm attempting to shortcut to sharepoint online. Other documents suggest, for sharepoint online, to use the Microsoft Graph Explorer to grant the SPN sharepoint permissions. Just curious.
Solution SageBased on your confirmation, the shortcut was successfully created using an Organizational (user) account, but not with a Service Principal. Also, my solution was implemented for the sharepoint online.
I have also tested this on my end and observed the same behavior.
For the Service Principal setup, admin consent is required, which will need to be granted by IT administrator. In the meantime, I recommend adding the required SharePoint API permissions and then testing again to see if the issue persists (for example, if it still returns an invalid credentials error).
Please let me know the outcome once you have tried this.