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Rik91
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5 years ago
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Building reports on third-party dataset

Hello Power BI family, I try to post a question here but I'm not sure if a solution exists. I'm trying to design a complex architecture for a customer this are the requirements: - there're 2 parts...
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    v-cazheng-msft
    5 years ago

    Hi Rik91 

    The datasets and workspaces allowed published are had linked to the currently signed in user. Therefore, you can't directly connect the datasets of another tenant. Dataflow is different from it. No matter what user is currently logged in, the cached credentials will be used. Compare to your other workarounds, dataflow is more feasible. For more details, you can refer Connect to Power BI dataflows and datasets using Power BI Desktop with multiple accounts.

     

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    Caiyun Zheng

     

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Rik91
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5 years ago

I got in contact directly with Microsoft trough a colleague of mine that's MVP and they confirmed that using a dataset from a different tenant is simply unsupported. I think dataflows could be a good workaround to extract data from tenant B and moving them to tenant A maybe using an organizational Azure Data Lake Storage in order to move them where needed using something like ADF.