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ed-freeman
Advocate II
5 years ago
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Updating OAuth data source credentials via API - bearer token expires, invalidating connection

We are connecting to our data source using OAuth credentials. Sometimes, Power BI requires us to re-enter our credentials in the Service, when the token has been invalidated for some reason (e.g. cha...
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  • lbendlin's avatar
    lbendlin
    5 years ago

    That's a limitation in the API. I seem to recall that they were planning to address that. Not sure if it is in the works - make sure to vote for the idea/post a new one.

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    ed-freeman
    Advocate II
    4 years ago

    Hi Liang,

    Thanks for the response. Unfortunately the link you've shared isn't quite the same thing and the solution isn't really viable. We're authenticating to Azure Synapse using the native connector which has built-in OAuth support. Updating credentials manually supports the refresh token scenario. It's just there's a limitation when trying to do the same thing via the API.

    Thank you,

    Ed