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trevorgermain
Advocate I
9 years ago

Embedding with Multi-Tenant data warehouse security concerns

We connect our Power BI reports to a mult-tenant data warehouse, and embed it in a Saas application. The current architecture proposed for the Power BI Service is to: Create a "master" user in the ...
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trevorgermain
Advocate I
9 years ago

The following links all show that using Resource Owner Password flow is a bad idea. In fact, the latest version of the ADAL library for .Net Core has removed the UsernamePasswordCredential entirely.

 

https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-CSharp/issues/30

https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-CSharp/issues/95

https://github.com/AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-library-for-dotnet/issues/482

http://stackoverflow.com/a/29110987

http://stackoverflow.com/a/28597758

http://stackoverflow.com/a/26795582

http://stackoverflow.com/a/39250380

 

I can only assume that the idea of application permissions will be coming to the Power BI service in the very near future, or the team has completely dropped the ball on the embedding security story.

 

When can developers expect a proper embedding authentication scenario?