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SAP HANA LDAP Authentication Fails with Power BI
- 6 years ago
Wanted to provide an update/solution to this problem.
The problem is related to how you install PowerBI Desktop. If you install the application through the Microsoft Store, HANA ldap authentication does NOT work. If you install PowerBI Desktop through the standalone installer, provided at, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=58494, then HANA ldap authentication works as expected. We have tested this on over a dozen machines with over a dozen user accounts, and all were fixed by uninstalling through the Microsoft Store, and installing the standalone package.
So, obviously something is broken with the app provided through the Microsoft Store. I hope this saves someone else weeks of troubleshooting....
-Brian
Dax,
Thanks for the response.
HANA is properly configured, as we are able to connect with the same users, using LDAP, for other applications (Tableau, etc.). So it appears Power BI simply doesn't support LDAP to HANA. We'll see if we can submit a feature request somewhere for this functionality.
-Brian
Wanted to provide an update/solution to this problem.
The problem is related to how you install PowerBI Desktop. If you install the application through the Microsoft Store, HANA ldap authentication does NOT work. If you install PowerBI Desktop through the standalone installer, provided at, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=58494, then HANA ldap authentication works as expected. We have tested this on over a dozen machines with over a dozen user accounts, and all were fixed by uninstalling through the Microsoft Store, and installing the standalone package.
So, obviously something is broken with the app provided through the Microsoft Store. I hope this saves someone else weeks of troubleshooting....
-Brian
- Mahmoud_122 years agoFrequent Visitor
i tried this way but it's not help me brother