topic Adding active directory group with asterisk character in Report Server

Adding active directory group with asterisk character

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 02:55:27 GMT

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 character the group cannot be added.

Ie. *PCL - HR Business Partnering and Employee Relations (Team) won't work because of the '*' character..

Any ideas to help with this?

Re: Adding active directory group with asterisk character

FarhanAhmed — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 05:16:44 GMT

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.

Re: Adding active directory group with asterisk character

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 05:29:44 GMT

Hi Farhan,

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

Re: Adding active directory group with asterisk character

FarhanAhmed — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 05:38:30 GMT

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

Re: Adding active directory group with asterisk character

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 07:16:57 GMT

Hi FarhanAhmed,

Unfortunitely the same result:

The user or group name is not recognized.

Re: Adding active directory group with asterisk character

FarhanAhmed — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 07:29:45 GMT

Is this an email group or AD group?

Email groups can be created separately independent of AD group. And you cannot add an email group in PBIRS.

Re: Adding active directory group with asterisk character

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 07:31:01 GMT

Its both an AD group and email distribution list