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Adding service principal to personal gateway

jaryszek — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 10:32:06 GMT

Hello,

it is possible to add service principal to get access to personal gateway in order to get local data sources refreshed in shared network on virtual machine?

Best,
Jacek

Re: Adding service principal to personal gateway

v-nmadadi-msft — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 05:01:55 GMT

Hi @jaryszek ,
Thanks for reaching out to the Microsoft fabric community forum.

The Personal Gateway is designed for interactive and personal use by a specific user, and it is tied directly to that user's identity. It does not support service principals. As a result, service principals cannot be added as administrators or users within a Personal Gateway configuration.

There is another type called Virtual network data gateway which allows multiple users to connect to multiple data sources secured using virtual networks. No installation is required because it's a Microsoft managed service. This gateway is well-suited to complex scenarios where multiple people access multiple data sources.
Please find more about it here: What is a virtual network (VNet) data gateway | Microsoft Learn
and check if it meets your specific requirement.

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Thank you

Re: Adding service principal to personal gateway

jaryszek — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:42:59 GMT

What about enterprise gateway? Service principal will work with this?

Re: Adding service principal to personal gateway

v-nmadadi-msft — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 05:04:34 GMT

Hi @jaryszek ,
Thanks for reaching out to the Microsoft fabric community forum.

There are three types of gateways:
On-Prem data gateway,
On-Prem data gateway( personal mode),
Vnet gateway

all of them works by personal use of specific user.

I hope this information helps. Please do let us know if you have any further queries.
Thank you