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Anonymous
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5 years ago

Adding active directory group with asterisk character

Hi all,    We are trying to add an active directory group to have permissions to a Power BI Report Server but encountering an issue.   We've found that when an AD group contains an asterisk chara...
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FarhanAhmed
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5 years ago

I am not sure if you can have an AD group having "*" in it ... but if you have one, you can create another AD group and add this group in the new group with a proper naming convention to avoid this issue.

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    Anonymous
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    5 years ago

    Hi Farhan, 

    Yes we have over 50 AD groups which currently have this character. Ideally we would not want to re-create these groups. 

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      FarhanAhmed
      Community Champion
      5 years ago

      have you tried to add using "Domain\AD Group Name"

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
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        5 years ago

        Hi FarhanAhmed, 

         

        Unfortunitely the same result:

        The user or group name is not recognized.