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Marizach's avatar
Marizach
Frequent Visitor
2 years ago

Power BI Desktop Authentication using Service Principal

I'm trying to create Power BI reports using the Desktop application. Right now I'm using my user account to authenticate and pull data from data sources. Is there a way to authenticate into the Deskt...
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amitchandak
Super User
2 years ago

Marizach , refer if these two can help

https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Service/Power-bi-service-principal-auth/m-p/2798889

https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Desktop/Unable-to-use-service-principal-with-Power-BI-desktop-and-web/td-p/845902

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