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6 years ago

USERPRINCIPALNAME() and USERNAME() returns same result

Hi All, I am facing issue with USERPRINCIPALNAMEand USERNAME both returning same result login name in my destop file. when i publish to app.powerbi.com am seeing result as login email for both!!!  ...
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6 years ago

Anonymous 

 

In Power BI Desktop, username() returns a user in the format of DOMAIN\User and userprincipalname() returns a user in the format of [email protected]

 

In Power BI Service, username() and userprincipalname() both return the userprincipalname, which is the email address format.

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Paul

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6 years ago

Hi Anonymous  yes thats the expected behavior, but in desktop iam getting DOMAIN\User for both the function. Not sure why this is happening in desktop, am using latest version nov 2019.

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    6 years ago

    Anonymous 

    Is your account assigned to a domain? Please first check with your UPN with "whoami" in cmd.
    One of my collegue also experienced the same issue, where both functions return his computer name(Desktop_xxxx\name) instead of account name. . This is because he was removed from the domain. 

    Paul