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lwgoBiadmin
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4 years ago
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Embed token expiration time concern

Hi All, We are planning to cache token using redis, our concern is explained below.      After generating the first token it will be stored in the cache and we will be using the same embed token un...
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    Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Hi lwgoBiadmin ,

     

    As far as I know, by default, the Azure token expiration time is one hour. There are two kind of embedding methods, embed for organization(user owns data)  and embed for customer (app owns data). 

    Embed token should be used in app owns data. Power BI will generate embed tokens by Azure token generated by master account or service principal.

    For reference: Understand the permission tokens needed for embedding a Power BI application

    If you get report before your token expired, you may still could see your report by cache. However, if you do some interaction on your report, your report will be broken due to token is expired. Then you need to get active embed token.

    For refernece: Refresh the access token in Power BI embedded analytics | Microsoft Docs

     

    Best Regards,
    Rico Zhou

     

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

     

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Anonymous
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4 years ago

Hi lwgoBiadmin ,

 

As far as I know, by default, the Azure token expiration time is one hour. There are two kind of embedding methods, embed for organization(user owns data)  and embed for customer (app owns data). 

Embed token should be used in app owns data. Power BI will generate embed tokens by Azure token generated by master account or service principal.

For reference: Understand the permission tokens needed for embedding a Power BI application

If you get report before your token expired, you may still could see your report by cache. However, if you do some interaction on your report, your report will be broken due to token is expired. Then you need to get active embed token.

For refernece: Refresh the access token in Power BI embedded analytics | Microsoft Docs

 

Best Regards,
Rico Zhou

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

 

  • lwgoBiadmin's avatar
    lwgoBiadmin
    Frequent Visitor
    4 years ago

    Hi Anonymous.,

    Thanks for the reply.

    Currently we are generating embed tokens by Azure token generated by service principal and by using a policy in azure we are able to increase the expiration time to 24hrs. Now we are checking expiration time and  generating token 30 minutes before expiration time. So that will solve this problem.