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KarenL7
Advocate V
3 years ago
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Refreshable Token for Power Bi Desktop

Hi   I have seen a lot of posts on here for this - and have been trying a number of them to get this working in PowerBIDesktop.  So far only one seems to be working in my report - FYI I used this p...
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Anonymous
Not applicable
3 years ago

Hi KarenL7 ,

When using organizational account authentication in Power BI Desktop, it requires Azure Active Directory (AAD) account and credential.

Another way is to use basic authentication and enter personal access token in Power BI Desktop when connecting to VSTS. For more details, please review the following article and similar thread.

Client authentication options - Azure DevOps | Microsoft Learn

Solved: Access to the Resource is Forbidden - Microsoft Power BI Community

Expression.Error: Access to the Resource is Forbidden: Fix (windowsreport.com)

 

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KarenL7
Advocate V
3 years ago

Hi Anonymous 

 

We have looked into this further  - after my posts below - and noted that your statement - 

 

We looked into this and noted that although we were bringing back the token correctly- as said in my posts - the resource was forbidden and we were struggling with it.

 

We then noticed when we added in another token in manually it was totally different and it worked.  This was using the admin account.  This goes back to what you said in your post

 

 

 

"When using organizational account authentication in Power BI Desktop, it requires Azure Active Directory (AAD) account and credential."

 

We are going to look into this further, thanks for your help.

 

Karen