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PJLNS
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7 years ago
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Azure blob - Account Key vs. Anonymous

Hello all,   I apologize if the answer to this question is too obvious, but I seem to be missing something.   When using the Azure blob connector in PBI, you are presented with the option of anon...
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    PJLNS
    7 years ago

    Thank you for taking the time to respond. My issue specifically is with PowerBi seemingly requiring Anonymous authentication when pulling images from Azure blob storage. A solution has been found for our case, so I will share for others.

     

    Rather than using the Azure Blob connector in PowerBi, we used the Powerapps connector to connect to a Powerapp which was connected to the Azure Blob storage. In our case we wanted the pictures to be filtered based on a folder (file name prefix in blob storage) and this was still possible using this method.

     

     

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v-piga-msft
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7 years ago

Hi PJLNS ,

It seems that you have confused about the two authentication methods about connecting with Azure blob in power bi desktop.

  1. Anonymous - this will only work if you've made your blob container public.  (this is invalid for most scenarios).
  2. Account Key - This is the master account key, which has full permissions to the storage account.

For more details about the two above, please have a good look at the document below.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-auth

Best Regards,

Cherry