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jdballard30
Helper II
6 years ago

Credentials Used to Connect

Is there a way in the Power BI service to see which credentials are being used for a dataset? I know that I can go to the Datasets tab and see my datasets, and under there I see "Data source credenti...
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Icey
Community Support
6 years ago

Hi jdballard30 ,

 

I have tested the API. It also works with datasets not using gateway.

For a sharepoint data source:

 

Of course, you can try the new API instead:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/datasets/getdatasources;

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/datasets/getdatasourcesingroup.

 

 

 

Best Regards,

Icey

 

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jdballard30
Helper II
6 years ago

Thanks for the follow-up! I was able to use the "Try It" button in the documentation and get a succcessful 200 response. Unfortunately, it still doesn't tell me the user account being used to access the data. I understand the security reason of NOT returning the user account, but I can also see an argument to return the account/username being used (but definitely not the password).