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Hi,
I have a question regarding Power BI and Azure Key Vault. Does Power BI handle the use of managed identity for authenticate with Azure Key Vault or do you need to use a service principal?
/ Håkan
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You do not need a Key Vault because the Managed Identity is available to other Azure Resources. You just have to give RBAC permissions to say a Container in a Storage Account (Blob Reader) and the Managed Identity in a Workspace has those permissions.
Introducing Workspace Identity & Managed Private Endpoints in Microsoft Fabric! (youtube.com)
I have done this in a Fabric capacity
You do not need a Key Vault because the Managed Identity is available to other Azure Resources. You just have to give RBAC permissions to say a Container in a Storage Account (Blob Reader) and the Managed Identity in a Workspace has those permissions.
Introducing Workspace Identity & Managed Private Endpoints in Microsoft Fabric! (youtube.com)
I have done this in a Fabric capacity