topic Re: PowerBi on promise - Distributed environment in Report Server

PowerBi on promise - Distributed environment

Arez2017 — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:20:20 GMT

Hello Community,　

I want to install PBI on promise in a distributed environment. So, I have installed:　

- SQL server on server1　

-SSAS Tabular on server2　

-PowerBI Report Server on server3　

When connecting to my dashboard I got this error attached.

I dont want to configure Kerberos.

Is there any workarround please?

Many thanks!　

Re: PowerBi on promise - Distributed environment

muchinski — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:25:24 GMT

Hi, if you don’t want to configure Kerberos delegation, you will not be able to use the "As the user viewing the report" option on the data source.
To workaround this, just set a username and password on the connection of your reports. This user should be an AD user that have access to your SSAS database.

Re: PowerBi on promise - Distributed environment

Arez2017 — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:40:37 GMT

Hello

Thanks for your reply. However, if I will set credentials, I will loose all security roles set on SSAS cube :(

Regards

Re: PowerBi on promise - Distributed environment

muchinski — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:46:55 GMT

You can use an user who is Admin on SSAS and check the option "Log in using these credentials, but then try to impersonate the user viewing the report"

This should keep all your roles working :)

(just a personal feedback here: I prefer to use Kerberos delegation)

Re: PowerBi on promise - Distributed environment

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 20:31:18 GMT

I have checked the box to impersonate the person running the report. I can see in SQL Profiler that the EffectiveUserName is being passed to the tabular model but the tabular model is not passing that to the database for the query. Any tips on security in the tabular model connections for getting it to pass the EffectiveUserName to the database?