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Before PADS4 can embed Power BI reports and dashboards, a Power BI admin must enable service principal embedding at the tenant level. The admin must also add the Azure app registration to the workspaces you want to use.

Before you begin

Make sure you have:
  • Completed the Azure Set-up app registration.
  • Power BI admin rights on the tenant.
  • Optional: a security group containing the service principal, if you want to scope embedding to that group instead of the entire organization.

Step 1: Enable service principal embedding

  1. Sign in to the Power BI admin portal.
  2. Go to Tenant settings.
  3. Scroll to Developer settings.
  4. Expand Embed content in apps and turn it On.
  5. Select the scope:
    • The entire organization (default), or
    • Specific security groups if you created a group for the service principal.
  6. Select Apply.
Embed content in apps setting in the Power BI admin portal

Step 2: Add the service principal to a Power BI workspace

Grant the Azure app registration access to each workspace whose reports or dashboards you want to embed in PADS4.
  1. Sign in to Power BI Home.
  2. Select Workspaces in the left menu.
  3. Find the workspace, open More options, and select Workspace access. Opening Workspace access from the workspace menu
  4. Select Add people or groups.
  5. Search for the app registration name you created in Azure.
  6. Add it as Member or Admin. Adding the app registration to workspace access
  7. Select Add to save the changes.
Repeat step 2 for every workspace you plan to embed in PADS4. The service principal only sees workspaces where it has been explicitly added.