https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Developer/Custom-Authentication/m-p/3405481#M44165 <P>Hey all.&nbsp; I'm new to power bi, and I'm struggling to find an answer to this question.&nbsp; We routinely build power bi apps for customers as part of our business.&nbsp; Up to this point, those have been built on the CUSTOMER's Azure account.&nbsp; This is a hassle because it requires the customer to manage and setup a number of things (or we do it for them).&nbsp; We would like to centralize this on our own instance so the data and apps reside on our tenant under our control.&nbsp; Normally, that would be pretty easy.&nbsp; We would build a custom app that does oauth or forms auth, and then present whatever we wanted based on some back end permissions configuration.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>However, that doesn't work for most of our customers that interact with PowerBI via Excel.&nbsp; These customers want to/have to login using their existing O365 credentials which are to tied THEIR tenants and not ours.&nbsp; Is there some magical way that would allow a customer to use their own login information to access power bi apps/data on our instance?&nbsp; I have looked into SAML SSO and even joining AD forests (which is a terrible hassle), but I don't believe any of those would actually work.&nbsp; I can't see a way to get "in front" of the Excel functionality.&nbsp; If anything isn't clear, please let me know, and I can clarify.&nbsp; Thank you.</P> Tue, 29 Aug 2023 23:46:01 GMT chriscap 2023-08-29T23:46:01Z https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Developer/Custom-Authentication/m-p/3405481#M44165 <P>Hey all.&nbsp; I'm new to power bi, and I'm struggling to find an answer to this question.&nbsp; We routinely build power bi apps for customers as part of our business.&nbsp; Up to this point, those have been built on the CUSTOMER's Azure account.&nbsp; This is a hassle because it requires the customer to manage and setup a number of things (or we do it for them).&nbsp; We would like to centralize this on our own instance so the data and apps reside on our tenant under our control.&nbsp; Normally, that would be pretty easy.&nbsp; We would build a custom app that does oauth or forms auth, and then present whatever we wanted based on some back end permissions configuration.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>However, that doesn't work for most of our customers that interact with PowerBI via Excel.&nbsp; These customers want to/have to login using their existing O365 credentials which are to tied THEIR tenants and not ours.&nbsp; Is there some magical way that would allow a customer to use their own login information to access power bi apps/data on our instance?&nbsp; I have looked into SAML SSO and even joining AD forests (which is a terrible hassle), but I don't believe any of those would actually work.&nbsp; I can't see a way to get "in front" of the Excel functionality.&nbsp; If anything isn't clear, please let me know, and I can clarify.&nbsp; Thank you.</P> Tue, 29 Aug 2023 23:46:01 GMT https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Developer/Custom-Authentication/m-p/3405481#M44165 chriscap 2023-08-29T23:46:01Z