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bcdobbs
Community Champion
1 year ago
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Sharepoint Cloud Connection - Service Principal

I'm trying to move our data connections over to use service principals. For sharepoint connections I can make it work by setting up a service principal along the lines of Setting up SharePoint app-o...
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    v-priyankata
    1 year ago

    Hi bcdobbs 

    Thank you for using Microsoft Community Forum.


    Currently, due to some limitations, Power BI Service does not yet support authenticating to SharePoint Online using Microsoft Graph-based service principal tokens.

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Akash_Varuna
Super User
1 year ago

Hi bcdobbs You might be missing admin consent for Graph API permissions, enabling service principals in Power BI tenant settings, or proper SharePoint site permissions. Also, ensure connection settings in Power BI are correctly configured.

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bcdobbs
Community Champion
1 year ago

Admin consent is granted, service principals work in power bi (as said it works via sharepoint ACS permissions but they are being retired).

 

Can you expand on what you mean by proper sharepoint site permissions?