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john_tozer_ba
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Connect to Teradata using LDAP Authentication

My organisation requires connections to Teradata to use LDAP authentication. This option should be available in PowerBI. It was previously requested in Power Query but is not yet delivered: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/2c3c74a8-6ef9-4c34-8dec-83d21d041e39/how-to-connect-to-teradata-with-ldap-authentication-via-powerquery?forum=powerquery
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  • gary_melnik's avatar
    gary_melnik
    New Member
    6 years ago
    Would really like to use PowerBI but my company uses LDAP authentication for connections to Teradata warehouse. When will this capability be implemented. How about a workaround ?
  • shunte_mcclella's avatar
    shunte_mcclella
    New Member
    6 years ago
    Our organization requires the same LDAP authentication due to the sensitivity rail road operations.
  • rupsterman's avatar
    rupsterman
    Advocate I
    6 years ago
    For Imported reports, you can use Teradata ODBC for Power BI Desktop and Gateway w/ DSN set with AuthMeth=LDAP as a 'stored/shared credential'. MS is working on LDAP support with Teradata connector (aka Teradata .NET), contact MS for status.
  • AvGeek's avatar
    AvGeek
    Frequent Visitor
    6 years ago
    Any update on this suggestion? The ODBC workaround suggested below is not feasible for very large data sets.
  • zbynek_blecha's avatar
    zbynek_blecha
    New Member
    6 years ago
    Is there any progress ? When will be possible to connect to Teradata using .NET provider with LDAP ?
  • ye1's avatar
    ye1
    New Member
    6 years ago
    Now that custom connectors are out, can this be patched to allow LDAP ? Or can MSFT publish the code for the community to take over and make some enhancements ? This is really a bottleneck if you wish to use DirectQuery as the workaround, using ODBC driver, does not allow DirectQuery. A real bummer when you have a 100M dataset...
  • AJames's avatar
    AJames
    New Member
    6 years ago
    Not having the LDAP connector is holding back our adoption of Power BI, it would be really good to have this sorted :-)
  • ye1's avatar
    ye1
    New Member
    6 years ago
    This was posted here too. https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Integrations-with-Files-and/Teradata-and-LDAP/m-p/34286/highlight/true#M3571 Any chance MSFT would publish the source code for the Teradata .NET connector ? The fix is actually straight-forward: enable the 'connection string' edit field available for other connectors and one can add any applicable parameter, in this case "...;Authentication Mechanism=LDAP"
  • amshukla's avatar
    amshukla
    Frequent Visitor
    6 years ago
    I am not able to connect to Active directory with LDAP authentication.

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