Power BI Image URLs from Tenant-Secured SharePoint – Intermittent Rendering Issues
Hi everyone, I’m experiencing ongoing issues with displaying image URLs in Power BI reports and apps, and I’m struggling to identify a reliable solution. Context We store employee/user headshots as image URLs in a user lookup table within the models. These images are used across multiple reports for UI elements such as: Logged-in user icons Employee of the Month visuals Leaderboards and other internal dashboards The images are hosted in a company SharePoint folder maintained by our Marketing team. All employees have view permissions to this SharePoint location (not anonymous access). Issue 1 – Power BI Service / Teams When opening reports in Power BI Service or via Teams, some images load correctly while others appear as broken image links. If I manually open the SharePoint image folder in my browser (authenticating via our tenant) and then refresh the report, the images display correctly. However, this only persists temporarily, typically by the next day the images are broken again. This makes me suspect an authentication, cookie, or caching issue rather than an issue with the URLs themselves. Issue 2 – Digital Signage We also surface these reports via a digital signage solution on screens around multiple offices. In this scenario, none of the SharePoint-hosted images render, they consistently show as broken links. Interestingly, the images display correctly in the digital signage platform’s preview, but fail once pushed to the physical screens. My assumption here is that the signage devices do not have the required authentication context (cookies / tokens) to access tenant-secured SharePoint images. Question Has anyone encountered similar behaviour when using SharePoint-hosted image URLs in Power BI? Is there a known or recommended approach for handling image authentication/caching issues like this? Are there better-practice alternatives for hosting images used in Power BI (especially for digital signage scenarios)? Would a different hosting method (e.g. public blob storage, CDN, base64 encoding, etc.) be more appropriate? Any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, as I’ve struggled to find clear documentation or examples covering this use case. Thanks in advance.
PowerBI, Windows Auth and Entra ID
I am looking at enabling Entra authentication for an on-premise PowerBI report server. Can PBIRS simultaneously support both integrated Windows authentication and Entra auth? i.e., will domain-connected users who currently authenticate with SSO be prompted to authenticate via Entra? Or will they continue to have access as they do today (no prompt) and only non-domain connected users would get the Entra login prompt?
Need Help Configuring User Access in Power BI Report Server
Hi everyone, I'm using Power BI Report Server and need some assistance with configuring user access. I want to achieve the following: View-Only Access: Users should be able to view reports without entering a username and password. Administrative Access: For accessing the administrative environment of the report server, entering a username and password should be mandatory. Could anyone guide me on how to set up these configurations? Any advice or practical examples would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very muchPBIRS Authentication issue
We have two servers in current case. Server A is holding all users AD account and Server B has Power BI Report Server installed. We joined the domain from Server B to Server A. All went well. We can create the own user group in Server B and we can assign the users from Server A into the user group in Server B. When we access to the Power BI portal, we have some issues. As we are testing to use Server A user to login to Server B Power BI report server portal. The login is successful but there are no details in the portal interface and only one message said “Service is not available. Could not connect to the server. Please check your network settings and try again later.". It works fine for our local user account created in Server B Power BI. It mentioned something authenticate issue. After that, I checked the rsreportserver.config file. The AuthenticationType is <RSWindowsBasic />. Next, I changed/add the The AuthenticationType is <RSWindowsNTLM />. There is totally different result. we are testing to use Server A user to login to Server B Power BI report server portal. We can access to the portal and can see the files and folders are existing in the interface. Also, I set up the security to make sure my testing account can only view one folder. It is working but there are an error message: “Received a request with an unmatched or no authentication scheme.” when I click any dashboard files. However, I checked the log file “RSPortal_....”. It mentioned something authenticate issue. After that, I checked the rsreportserver.config file. Even I use the local user got the same issue as well. On the other hand, I have another question. Originally, we setup as local admin account as Service Account and the SQL server connect If I joined the domain. Do I need to change from my local admin account to the service account to the AD domain Administrator Account (Server A Admin)?How to authenticate PowerBI Report Server with default user
Hi Team, We are embeding Power BI Server reports (paginated reports \ .rdl files) created using PowerBI Report Builder using IFrame tag in .net application. Currently every use who is logging into .net application has to have an access even on PowerBI Server - otherwise report doesn't show up. As there are many users - we wanted to have this authentication using one default user (AD or System User). Is it possible to authenticate to PowerBI Server using a default user? Any leads here would be greately appreciated. Thanks Mandarpower bi report server authentication not working when set url in local windows 11
hi I install power bi reprot server on windows 11. in host file set test.local url for local system ip address 192.168.85.1 in power bi report server configuration set test.local on web service url and web portal url. when use IP or desktop name, power bi report server load whiout any problem. but when using test.local url hit, authentication popup show and con not login to reprot server whit user name and password.
Need To keep Authentication On for everytime
Hi we have power Bi Report server with url ex. https//powerbi-demo.com:443/Reports It is public URL and its open for everyone in our company. We want to make sure that only limited users can login into this URL. Currently its windows authentication so everyone can login into this URL without passing credential. Can anyone help with this problem so we want to enable authentication for everyuser everytime? If user is not allowed to login into this power Bi report server URL. It will tell user that you are not authorized to login this URL. Contact Administrator. Can anyone help with this feature to enable authentication for everytime for everyuser in normal browser not in private/incognito mode. Thanks in advance
