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Nunila
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2 years ago

No UMI authentication method for PBI data sources? Device used during the authentication is disabled

We shifted away from Service Principal secrets as part of the security wave. When looking at the available authentication methods, Managed Identity is not one of the options. Are there plans to imple...
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Nunila
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2 years ago

Hello Anonymous,

Thanks for your response. If Power BI does not support Managed Identites as of today that is unfortunate - I suppose they're probably in process of developing it. 

 

We had Service Principal setup for the sources, but it requires a service principal key and that's what we're moving away from (usage of secrets). The other possibilities are anonymous and Basic, which are discarded. 

 

 

The sources I am having trouble with are of type Web, but they using kusto (they were autogenerated when using "Query To PowerBI" in kusto). OAuth2 is the only type that could fit in my scenario, and it doesn't throw any errors when it tests the connector, but on the actual Report refresh, it throws the error I mentioned above.

 
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Anonymous
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2 years ago

Hi,Nunila.
Thank you for your reply.
Have you tried dataflow, by setting up dataflow you might be able to bypass the gateway refresh and refresh daraflow directly, you can try it (I can't test this way due to my environment):

I hope my suggestions give you good ideas, if you have any more questions, please clarify in a follow-up reply.

Best Regards,

Carson Jian,

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