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Service Principal with Power BI using Data Gateway
Jayendran Thanks for the info! Let us know if you hear anything from the Power BI team on this issue.
Also, I read a Microsoft documents that states: Customers that configure row-level security (RLS) using an SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) on-premises live connection data source can enjoy the new service principal capability to manage users and their access to data in SSAS when integrating with Power BI Embedded. (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedded-row-level-security#on-premises-data-gateway-with-service-principal). This articles implies, that even though you have to use the API to add it, it should work? Based on what your saying is this documentation wrong (or am I misunderstanding it?)
Thanks!
Thanks brentcarlson for the link to the article. Based on the date of the post, the capabability was added after we initially attempted, so this may now be possible.
AdamWidi Let us know if you get this working. So far, we haven't been able to see it work; even though the service principal shows up in the access list for the gateway now.
We still have not been able to get this work. We got the gateway to show the Service Principal using the API call; however we think the issue stems inside of SQL Server and/or SQL Server Analysis Services. When using Azure hosted SQL Analysis Servvices there is an option to add an appid (of the Service Principal); on-premise SQL Analysis Services does not give this option. We think this is why it is not working (and makes sense); as the Service Principal doesn't have access to SQL. We are looking at alternatives on how to translate the authentication from the gateway into SQL Analysis Services. The documenation implies this should work but doesn't give any details on how to make it work.
