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active directory scheduled refresh
I second this disappointing discovery - having sold Power BI to our Active Directory owners at an enterprise I currently work at, to find we can only refresh manually from PBI Desktop/Personal gateway is a bit of a non-starter, looks like we won't be going very far beyond our trial for now. I also have an enterprise gateway established, SQL connection on a scheduled refresh works a treat, adding a second data source for AD does not permit a scheduled refresh (data sources match, permissions are fine etc).
What is most concerning is that I'm finding articles as far back as 2015/2016 citing this gap - significant time has passed and no feature improvements in this space, despite new visuals monthly. Where is the focus?
If anyone reads this and if I can help in any way please reach out - this is the first time posting to this community and I'm keen to assist if I can. It's unusual that Active Directory is an allowed data source in the On-premise gateway..... but doesn't work, go figure.
http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Active-Directory-Scheduled-Refresh/td-p/181585