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mrhodes
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10 years ago

Power BI Embedded and Azure Active Directory Authentication

Power BI Embedded and Azure Active Directory Authentication – There is limted documentation available at this time and we know the service is still in preview, but we read that Power BI Embedded supp...
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eligr
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8 years ago

Hi.

The feature of passing AAD token to SQL Azure is currently not supported in "App owns data" scenario.

We are currently looking into this ask.

 

Consider using "User owns data" for this flow for now.

 

Eli.

 

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Anmolgan
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8 years ago

You are saying that I cant design an application that gives access to users by matching there credentials from a database and opening a particular report for them using AAD Authorization??


If Not Then are there any ways So that I can achive this scenerio?

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    eligr
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    8 years ago

    In "App owns data" scenario, there is no way to pass user AAD token through PowerBI to SQL Azure.

     

     

    Eli.

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      Anmolgan
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      8 years ago

      So are there any other scnerios where this is possible?

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        eligr
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        8 years ago

        In "User own data", users' AAD will be passed to SQL Azure, if his datasource is configured to do that.