Power BI Deployment Guide

1 Overview

This document provides an in-depth description of how to deploy the DynamicPoint Power BI report integration functionality.

2 Configure Power BI for Service Principal Access

The DynamicPoint portal Power BI embed leverages a service principal for authentication. Detailed instructions on leveraging this approach can be found on the following article: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedded/embed-service-principal

Steps 1-4 should be followed directly from the referenced article.

Step 1 – Create an Azure AD app

The following notes apply to step 1:

  • For Redirect url use: https://portal.dynamicpoint.com
  • Note: Make sure you copy and save the Application ID and Secret which are provided by the end of the registration. You can retrieve the Application ID later from the app registration in Azure, but if you lose the secret you will have to create a new one manually.

Steps 3-4

Directly follow the Microsoft support article.

Step 5

Skip this step and move on with portal configuration.

3 Configure Power BI Report in DynamicPoint Portal

Create the Report Credential

Create the Report Service

Service Based URL – Use https://analysis.windows.net/powerbi/api