Power BI Authentication Needed

[RobRayborn]

It is wonderful that we can now import links to Power BI data into Power Point. However when I open my Power Point presentation in the SharePoint Browser version I get a popup once I get to the slide that has the Power BI visual embeded in it that states, "Power BI authentication needed", "It looks like opups are blocked. Please click OK to open the quthentication window."

Once may be fine for this to popup but it happens every time I return to this slide.  I tried turning off the 'Popup Blocker' for the MS Edge, that didn't work. 

How do get this to go away and just have my embeded data show up?

[v-xiaoyan-msft]

Hi @RobRayborn ，

To use the Power BI add-in for PowerPoint, users must either have access to the Office add-in store, or the add-in must be made available to them as an admin managed add-in.

To be able to view live Power BI data in PowerPoint, users must have an active Power BI account and a Power BI Free license, as well as access to the data. If the Power BI report is not located in a Premium capacity, a Power BI Pro license is needed.

If auto-licensing for Power BI is enabled, users without a Power BI account will be signed up automatically when they open a presentation containing a live Power BI report page. This may impact the assignment and availability of licenses in your organization. See Power BI license assignment for more information.

If auto-licensing is not enabled, users without Power BI accounts will be requested to sign up.

For more you may refer to Power BI add-in for PowerPoint - Admin info 

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Caitlyn

[Rich-C]

Can someone from the MS team please read the original post and reply with an actual remedy to the issue, and not a generic response that you need a license?

I have the same issue.  It works fine from PowerPoint, however if you attempt to open the PPT with the embeded Power BI, from within Teams, you get the below popup and you have to click the Ok button to complete authentication.  This has nothing to do with a PowerBI license or permissions to the underlying PBI dashboard.

[Anonymous]

I too have exactly the same problem which was not answered in the response.

[ivanstankov]

I too have the same issue. Micosoft add-in plots live data without any issues in editing mode, but when presenting, every slide containg power bi visuals is frozen with this authentication window. Hope this issues resolves soon, as it does not seem to be related to licensing or even browser settings (even with pop-ups enabled this window is always there).

[JCouture]

I am also having the exact same issue trying to present Power Bi slides through Power Point. 
Does anyone have any fix for this?

[tweinzapfel]

Same issue here and the fix that I am finding is to just open up the PowerPoint in the desktop app and run the slideshow through there (i.e. outside of Teams and PowerPoint online).  In addition, I find that if you do a run through of the slide deck - especially any slides that have the embedded PBI report, it allows them to load.  Then start the presentation as normal and the reports appear right away.    

[RobRayborn]

Hopefully the MS PP developers see this as an area to improve upon.  Or maybe it's the Power BI developers that need to work on it.

[scriptpup]

We also have the same issue.

[Anonymous]

I have the same issue. Popup blocker message when opening embedded powerpoint slide in Teams. Also, when I open in MS PowerPoint desktop app, the slides freeze when trying to referesh the visuals. Please help.