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Dated credentials on SharePoint content

Hi everyone!    I've ran into this issue a few times now and decided to ask for your input. We have a lot of Power BI reports that draw data from content in our SharePoint - environment. The creden...
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    Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Dear Anonymous , 

     

    thank you for your reply! In our organization the problem was the MFA method which was taken into wider use. Our IT-admin decided at this time to solve this by having one admin account for Power BI, Flow, PowerApps connections that is left outside of the MFA process. Not an ideal solution, but will do for the time being. 

     

    I found this article service principal, which would seem to solve the issue: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embed-service-principal.  I'll ask our IT-admin at some point, if this would be a good solution for us too. 

     

    Thanks for the help, you all! 

     

     

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

Dear Anonymous , 

 

thank you for your reply! In our organization the problem was the MFA method which was taken into wider use. Our IT-admin decided at this time to solve this by having one admin account for Power BI, Flow, PowerApps connections that is left outside of the MFA process. Not an ideal solution, but will do for the time being. 

 

I found this article service principal, which would seem to solve the issue: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embed-service-principal.  I'll ask our IT-admin at some point, if this would be a good solution for us too. 

 

Thanks for the help, you all!