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mrohde
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9 years ago
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Data Gateway Login Best Practice

When installing a data gateway you are prompeted for a user  name and password. I am relucatant to use my own since I generally prefer to have a service account associated with a service.  What is the recommendation for the login?

 

Also, if I create a service account what are the minimum security requirments as well as licensing requirements for the service account?

  • mrohde's avatar
    mrohde
    9 years ago

    Anonymous, I actually ended up creating a service account in AD that was synced to the O365.  I made the user an actual service account on the server I installed the gatway on (my not have been necessary) and then gave it a Power BI license on O365.

     

    From there was able to create the connection and assign admin permission to a couple other admins.

     

    So far this approach appears to be working fine!

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    9 years ago

    Hi mrohde,

    Do you install Power BI personal gateway and want to set service account of Power BI personal gateway? You can set the service account to other accounts , just make sure that the account is added to the local security policy “Log on as a Service”, you can use the following steps to add the "Log on as a service" right to an account on your local computer.

       1. Open Local Security Policy.
       2. In the console tree, double-click Local Policies, and then click User Rights Assignments.
       3. In the details pane, double-click Log on as a service.
       4. Click Add User or Group, and then add the appropriate account to the list of accounts that possess the Log on as a service right.

    Besides, there are no licensing requirements for the service account.

    Thanks,
    Lydia Zhang

    • mrohde's avatar
      mrohde
      Regular Visitor
      9 years ago

      I was actually installing an Enterprise Gateway rather than personal.  It sounds like you recommend a service account either way.

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Not applicable
        9 years ago

        Hi mrohde,

        Could you please post the screenshot of your sceanrio? If you refer to the sign-in account and password by clicking "Sign In" button in the following screenshot, usually we use an account which has Power BI pro license to register gateway.


        Thanks,
        Lydia Zhang

    • pinoaino's avatar
      pinoaino
      Advocate I
      7 years ago

      My team is going to configure a server with the Gateway inside an organization so is not the case of a personal gateway.
      So my questions are:

      1. at the first configuration we must use an email associated to a Pro licence, but this email can be a functional email ? This email must have a "newer expire" password to avoid the risk of a service stop.
      2. is it a differet way to avoid the use of the email address?
      3. are there situations that we must do a gateway login? This question is to understand if exceptionally we can use an email linked to a phisical person with the rule of password change
      4. sorry for my incompetence but I don't understand the use of "log as a service" and also if we need this type of configuration.

      Many thanks