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Share and use datasets from different tenants
Hello,
I was wondering if it's possible to share (and use) datasets from different tenants to produce unified reports. Maybe with Power BI Premium?
Do you have any article of reference?
Thanks in advance!
Hi Anonymous ,
In desktop, you can connect to the same dataflow with different tenant accounts.
Dataflows are NOT linked to the currently signed in user. The connection is authenticated, not the current user. The “Sign In” button must be selected, and authentication completed to connect to a Power BI dataflow.
The connection information for the dataflow is cached with Power BI Desktop, and subsequent connections to dataflows will not require the user to sign in.
The connection information for the dataflow is cached with Power BI Desktop, and subsequent connections to dataflows will not require the user to sign in. The same authentication credentials will be used.
Best Regards,
Liang
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Anonymous Not to my knowledge. You can share between workspaces but not tenants. See Usage Models:
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Power-BI-Usage-Models-in-Pictures/ba-p/1342820
Greg_Deckler I found this page where there is an explanation of Power BI Embedded for a multi-tenant situation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedded/embed-multi-tenancy
However, I still have no clue on how to practically implement it or to test it... 😐
It's the first time I hear of it, but I'm not a developer.
Anonymous Are we talking different tenants? Tenant in Power BI is the same as an Office 365 tenant basically. It is a logical construct for security. Things don't pass between tenants. You can't even migrate the email from one Office 365 tenant to another without extracting all of the data and then importing all of the data.
What you have there is for building multi-tenant (read customers) reporting. So think an ISV building a cloud app has multiple "tenants" or customers. However, it's all in a single Azure "tenant", the one the ISV owns.
Right?
Hi all,
Did anyone find a solution to the single sign on between two tenants?
I have seen this (below) but not sure it answers all of our questions, i.e. does this require premium capacities in both tenants for users to be able to view reports, can we still use the same Azure AD groups for governance, do we still get the usage stats for both tenants, etc.
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-ie/blog/introducing-cross-tenant-power-bi-dataset-sharing/
