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Hi all,
i just discovered the Power BI Helper Tool from Radacad ->
As the features are relly helpful, I am thinking about the security aspect.
Does anyone has any experience with the tool. It seems to work offline, but there is a option to register the Poer BI Helper to your tenant...what means data will be processed from and to the Power BI Helper. Not sure if that is a security issue.
thanks for the help!
Hi @NovaBI
Power BI Helper tool handling only the metadata of your Power BI system. You need to register an AAD application which is a basic requirement for any external to access the Power BI metadata or APIs.
Refer the below URL where Reza replied to one of the security related question.
REf - https://radacad.com/power-bi-helper
Thanks
Hari
@Hariharan_R Thanks for your answer, I already saw that comment from Reza. I do trust him as he is well known in the community, but if we have an internal audit, I need something more tangible than a comment 🙂
But there is a statement on his page as well saying that no data is stored anywhere.
Could you give me a hint on how to register the app? I did try the usual way ->
But if i click sign in, i am redirected to -> https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/developers/
if i sign in there, i end up in my PBI service cloud.
Then i was trying -> https://app.powerbi.com/embedsetup
But i cant select the native app option, its like this:
Hi @NovaBI
Check the second option in the below URL - Register application directly in Azure portal
https://carldesouza.com/how-to-register-an-azure-app-to-use-with-power-bi/
Thanks
Hari
Hi @Hariharan_R ,
thanks for the answer. I did try the 2nd solution already, but it seems as we are sitting on a dedicatd capacity, the azure authorization asked for the Corporate admin (grant admin constent for XYZ). I can't proceed from this point.
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