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4 years ago

Credential Management for multiple model developers/roles change?

Hi all,   Core question: How do you manage you credentials in a dataset? Background: Standard practice is to have a managed shared workspace (I assume this means at minimum not the "myworkspace...
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lbendlin
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4 years ago

You haven't even mentioned the biggest kicker yet.  There's also the gateway connection credentials to think about. That has a much bigger impact than the dataset "owner" topic.  

 

Power BI has been designed for the single developer, not for an enterprise environment. There are some changes happening with tentative support of deployment pipelines etc, but these are slow and often insufficient.  My advice would be to shift your focus to procedures, like excessive communication among developers, using sharepoint or github for smaller pbix files, adopting pbi.tools or other methods that suit your developer mentality. Be good friends with your tenant admin and your O365 admin. Ask them for advice on service principals and other workarounds.

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    Anonymous
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    4 years ago

    Yes there is that too. I agree that the single developer design is an issue for enterprise. Another way I think about it is that is an office product not an azure product. I can see how this came about, it is an extension/combination of access, excel and powerpoint in terms of design and function (plus cloud service). That being said, would it have such a nice ux if it had been an azure product? probably not. It is also fare to say it is for non-developers like me, likely because it is an office product. Although ADF & Synpase Workspace are both very non-dev... so maybe not? I kinda whish thought that instead of trying to make PowerBI enterprise/azure friendly. They kept PowerBI as self-service and then build a seperate product in Azure that was both PowerBI & PBI Embedded / enterprise, keeping a similar ux if possible. However, there is a fair argument that this already exists with Azure Analysis Services (minus the visuals) even though they seem to be giving Premium all the fancy stuff over AAS.

    additional, there is dicussion on the gateway, in the link I shared above:
     https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Developer/Possible-to-update-credentials-via-REST-API/m-p/137509
    and I have seen other conversations on the gateway issue.