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Ben44
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2 years ago
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Connect to Sharepoint with Service Principal

Hi,   If you have a Sharepoint as a datasource, the UI suggest that you can connect to if with Service Principal :  But it's impossible. We get this error message each time :    Failed to ...
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pichlerpa
Frequent Visitor
2 years ago

Ben44I provided the solution in the link you posted: https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Service/Adding-a-SharePoint-data-source-with-a-service-principal/td-p/3791170

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