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TomD
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6 years ago

SAN Certificate

I have a certificate expiring on my Power BI server. I'm replacing it with a SAN certificate because my boss wants to use another name to reference the server. I'm using the instructions below on my ...
Power BI Server SAN Certificate
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TomD
Frequent Visitor
6 years ago

I got the SAN certificate working and I'll explain the slight difference for Power BI server in case anybody runs into this problem.

 

  1. The instructions are pretty good, but be carefull when adding the urlacl. I copied the entry from the link and didn't change the user parameter. For SSRS the default install uses NT Service\ReportServer, but Power BI uses NT SERVICE\PowerBIReportServer. 

  2. Additionally, I couldn't get the new SAN name to work until I added a http (port 80) entry for the SAN name in the Web Service URL Advanced screen.

Everything seems to be working now. Both my original and new URL names are working for all content.