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juhokunnari
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5 years ago

Service principal, managing on premise gateways

According to instructions here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/gateways/adddatasourceuser, you should be able to add service principal as user for on premise data gateway. This is...
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juhokunnari
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5 years ago

The first thread you linked points to instructions https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/gateways/adddatasourceuser#example-for-giving-readoverrideeffectiveidentity-access-right-to-a-service-principal which quite clearly states "example for giving ReadOverrideEffectiveIdentity access right to a service principal". So in theory it should work but in practice you will face an DMTS error.

Is this something that is an known issue and will be fixed? Otherwise those instructions are quite misleading and should be modified.