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nganesh
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7 months ago

Deployment to app.powerbi through restapi from a Azure client app

I am trying to deploy data model and report from desktop to app.powerbi though a client app configuration. Data models are owned by 3 different services accounts for different environment. I am able ...
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nganesh
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7 months ago

Sorry for the delay in response. I am able to create workspace, impact dataset, assign permissions etc. Our initial setup included Azure service account (not principal) for EntraID authentication with snowflake. We recently decided to move away from password based service accounts. Is there way to define the azure service principal in the database connection parameter in the dataset - ideally key-pair configured in Snowflake

 

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    v-dineshya
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    7 months ago

    Hi nganesh ,

    Power BI supports only Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) OAuth-based SSO or username/password for Snowflake not key‑pair authentication. Snowflake integration uses Microsoft Entra ID for SSO, not custom auth schemes such as key pairs.

     

    Please refer below link.

    Connect to Snowflake with Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

     

    I hope this information helps. Please do let us know if you have any further queries.

     

    Regards,

    Dinesh

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      nganesh
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      6 months ago

      This seems to be a recent enhancement to the PowerBI.  I get the following error while adding the pvt key. 

      ailed to update data source credentials: ADBC: [Snowflake] failed parsing PKCS8 private key: pkcs8: only PBES2 supportedHide details

      Activity ID:0c0609d0-1adf-4365-b33a-76f14cc0c3c9
      Request ID:7bba2719-c727-6afa-e1eb-2d92b05b418d
      Status code:400
      Time:Wed Feb 11 2026 19:22:06 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
      Service version:13.0.27555.5
      Client version:2601.3.27671-train
      Cluster URI:https://wabi-west-us-c-primary-redirect.analysis.windows.net/