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NickColebourn
Regular Visitor
9 years ago

Power BI Report Server Authentication Issue - Azure AD Domain Joined Installation

After a local installation of Power BI report server to a laptop which is ONLY domain joined to Azure AD (no on-premises domain join) the portal fails to load with the error message "Could not load f...
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Jon-Heide
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

Hi Nick - yes, unfortuantely the PBI Report server and SSRS both require a connection to an instance of Active Directory. The issue you noted for 2016 looks similar, however in that case the machine is still ultimately domain joined. One option you could consider is to install and run a local AD controller on your machine. Then use ADFS + Azure AD Connect to bind your local AD to AAD if you need to flow through your credentials for single sign on.

 

Native support for Azure AD as well as ADFS is a popular request. We're looking into it, but can't share any timelines at this point.

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NickColebourn
Regular Visitor
9 years ago

Thanks for the reply Jon (and apologies for the lateness of the reply, not sure why the email notifications for this thread didn't work). 

 

Installing an AD DC on a laptop will cause all sorts of support issues so it's not an option. Will hope to see support for Azure AD joined scenarios soon.