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Allow external users access to Reports one Report Server
For 1. as far as I know it is not available yet. I would love to know if anyone has got this working.
For 2. yes it is achievable with SSAS RLS but nothing in-built from Power BI Report Server.
Anonymous - Thank you for the response. For #2, are you saying that we could embed the pbix (optimized for Report Server and with RLS enabled) into our secured website that external users must log in to and see the report? I'm not technical so if this is possible could you point me to some documentation that might achieve this? It might be ok if we bypass report server and just embed with in our secure website.
Hi shera276,
Embedding Power BI Reports into external application is only supported via PowerBI.com and requires Power BI Premium Capacity Subscription as far as I am aware.
You can embed the report server reports into internal applications.
check out the below blog post:
https://www.kasperonbi.com/embedding-power-bi-reports-with-power-bi-report-server/
Thanks,
Bhavesh
Hi,
Did you look at the custom authentication at this site.
https://github.com/microsoft/Reporting-Services/tree/master/CustomSecuritySample
I was able to implement this and I was succesful in deploying the applications to Report Server and then the same authenticaion linked to any client application.
Let me know if you need any help.
For #2, what we have done is, once the report is published to Power BI report server, we copy the report url and added it to an iFrame within our application. This works fine in our environment, although external users have to use a separate account within our AD to log in to PBIRS and look at the report. We have not find any workaround for this.
- How did you give access for external customer in your embed url application w hilst creating a AD login in your report server? Do you copy the AD user credentials into your application.
Anonymous wrote:For #2, what we have done is, once the report is published to Power BI report server, we copy the report url and added it to an iFrame within our application. This works fine in our environment, although external users have to use a separate account within our AD to log in to PBIRS and look at the report. We have not find any workaround for this.
I am in same situation:
I have started a seperate thread as initially I did not find this thread: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Report-Server/Embedded-Power-BI-Report-Server-and-RLS-for-Internal-and/m-p/756956/highlight/false#M11177
My Client wants to use "Power BI Report Server" (Power BI in On-Premises World) and NOT Power BI Service.
Following are the requirment:
- Power BI reports should be used by both internal and external users. [Note: As of now Dashboards in not a supported feature for the on-prem server:https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Report-Server/creating-dashboards-on-POWERBI-REPORT-SERVER/td-p/247...]
- Need to embed Power BI reports into Applications. How to do this?
- Application and Power BI reports should support Single Sign-On (SSO)?
- Embedded Power BI Reports should support Dynamic Row-Level Secirity (RLS)? [On-premises row level security with Power BI is only available with Live Connection: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-tutorial-row-level-security-onprem-ssas-tabular]
Need to know out of above 4, how many can be achieved and how?
In the upcoming release in September the new filter pane will become GA in PBIRS and together with PBIRS custom authentication all of the above 4 can be achieved then, assuming you are using SSAS Tabular as your data source.
