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Share and use datasets from different tenants
Hi Anonymous ,
In desktop, you can connect to the same dataflow with different tenant accounts.
Dataflows are NOT linked to the currently signed in user. The connection is authenticated, not the current user. The “Sign In” button must be selected, and authentication completed to connect to a Power BI dataflow.
The connection information for the dataflow is cached with Power BI Desktop, and subsequent connections to dataflows will not require the user to sign in.
The connection information for the dataflow is cached with Power BI Desktop, and subsequent connections to dataflows will not require the user to sign in. The same authentication credentials will be used.
Best Regards,
Liang
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Anonymous
Hi Anonymous ,
In desktop, you can connect to the same dataflow with different tenant accounts.
Dataflows are NOT linked to the currently signed in user. The connection is authenticated, not the current user. The “Sign In” button must be selected, and authentication completed to connect to a Power BI dataflow.
The connection information for the dataflow is cached with Power BI Desktop, and subsequent connections to dataflows will not require the user to sign in.
The connection information for the dataflow is cached with Power BI Desktop, and subsequent connections to dataflows will not require the user to sign in. The same authentication credentials will be used.
Best Regards,
Liang
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.Hi Liang, can you elaborate more on this approach? It seems confusing to me.
So in order for a PBI dataset/report in Tenant2 to use dataflow in Tenant1, will I need to:
- sign in Desktop as Tenant1 user, connect to dataflow in Tenant1
- then save and send the file to a user in Tenant2, or re-sign-in Desktop as Tenant2 user
- publish Desktop to Tenant2
Is this the correct workflow? Will the cloud refresh in Tenant2 work? Do we need to provide Tenant1 user credential (for the dataflow source) in the cloud refresh settings in Tenant2 dataset?
chaz2jerry just curious what conclusions you came to?
Due to a takeover, we have 2 seperate tenants (Parent organization, and us).
That requires people to login to different tenants to get reports. The most minor goal is to allow one signin to access the reports of both tenants. Which doesn't seem like a thing to me...but am googling away...
