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jslade
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7 years ago
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Connecting to Azure DB in Another Azure Tenant

We are hosting data in an Azure database hosted in our Azure Tenant and one of our clients wants to create PowerBI reports in their instance of PowerBI (seperate from our tenant).  Will they be able ...
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  • Jayendran's avatar
    Jayendran
    7 years ago

    Hi jslade  your approach is correct, you can use the gateway to connect to azure database. 

     

    Whitelist your onpremiese Gateway Server IP in your Azure Database, so that all the data goes through the gateway server and not directly via powerbi service.

     

    If you aren't using the gateway then you need to open the IP range of Power BI server is updated weekly, which is very painful bcoz it will updte weekly.

     

    Please refer this also

    https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Connecting-Power-BI-com-to-Azure-SQL-database/td-p/210902

     

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Jayendran
Solution Sage
7 years ago

Hi jslade  your approach is correct, you can use the gateway to connect to azure database. 

 

Whitelist your onpremiese Gateway Server IP in your Azure Database, so that all the data goes through the gateway server and not directly via powerbi service.

 

If you aren't using the gateway then you need to open the IP range of Power BI server is updated weekly, which is very painful bcoz it will updte weekly.

 

Please refer this also

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Connecting-Power-BI-com-to-Azure-SQL-database/td-p/210902