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Microsoft EmployeeShare your thoughts on DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Services (preview)
Useful feature, which avoids duplication of data flow and data model parts. However, a big spanner in the works is the lack of support for authentication by service principal.
We use Power BI Embedded in a big way and this shortcoming disables the feature for us. A report based upon this feature fails to display any data, since our web service principal fails to authenticate to the chained data sets.
Please, fix this lack of support for service principal.
Microsoft EmployeeHi jpbarnard thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately, we are not planning to support service principals, but please feel free to vote for it on ideas.powerbi.com. That will help us prioritize it.
Well, that decision renders this feature useless for a substantial user community. I cannot think of a single, good technical reason why service principal authentication cannot be supported. This seems to be purely a marketing decision, which is regrettable. We are not impressed.
is this feature already supported?
is this feature already suported?
