Members in nested AD groups can't run BI reports

I have found an issue with permissions in Power BI Report Server associated with nested AD groups. We use Active Directory (on premise) groups to control permissions in PBIRS. I have found that if ...

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mrbonvivant

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8 years ago

I worked with support on this issue and it turns out the issue was due to a 1-way trust between the domains. I was using a service account in domain A to run the Power BI Report Server in domain B. Once I switch to using a service account in the same domain as PBIRS the issue went away.

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