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Anonymous
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6 years ago
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Embedded Paginated Report Data Source Auth

I am using Power BI Embedded and am trying to embed a paginated report into my web application use a service principal.  I have been able to successfully embed the report, but have a question about t...
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    Anonymous
    6 years ago

    I ended up opening a support ticket with Microsoft, and wanted to post back here what I ended up finding out.

     

    When embedding a paginated report using the 'app owns data' model your only options for authentication are a SQL Server username and password or a AAD username and password.  It is not possible to use the service principal to authenticate with the database.

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

I ended up opening a support ticket with Microsoft, and wanted to post back here what I ended up finding out.

 

When embedding a paginated report using the 'app owns data' model your only options for authentication are a SQL Server username and password or a AAD username and password.  It is not possible to use the service principal to authenticate with the database.

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    talderman
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    5 years ago

    It's been a long while, do you or anyone else know if Microsoft was unblocked service prinical authenication?