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asocorrocognex
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2 years ago
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What to do when developers leave an organization?

An organization has several Power BI report authors and publishers.  Data sources range from on-premises databases to files stored in many, many (I repeat, many) different SharePoint document librari...
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  • lbendlin's avatar
    lbendlin
    2 years ago

    The API allows that in a very convoluted way ( you need to run multiple calls in a specific sequence) but that is missing the point.  The employee leaving should be an inflection point and and opportunity to review if these datasets are still needed or can be retired.

  • aj1973's avatar
    aj1973
    2 years ago

    Hi asocorrocognex 

    Easiest way would be the new Admin of the wrokspace takes over the semantic model and configure credentials.

     

  • TomMartens's avatar
    TomMartens
    2 years ago

    Hey asocorrocognex ,

     

    we consider it never a good idea to use a personal account for data refresh. When a report is published to a workspace, the re-authentication has to happen. My recommendation is to use a service account. Even when the report is published again, the refresh is using the service account. Takeover is only required when a new schedule has to be configured.

     

    Regards,

    Tom

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2 years ago

Hi asocorrocognex ,

I believe TomMartens , aj1973  and lbendlin 's replies were very useful and helped you in some way. May I ask if your problem has been solved? You might consider marking the helpful replies as solutions. Feel free to keep asking us questions if you still have doubts.

 

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