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Allow Azure AD guest accounts to select Power BI tenant during login

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on 26 Mar 2018 21:09:52

Our large worldwide organization has multiple Azure AD tenants and we are using Azure AD B2B and guest accounts extensively. We have a need to create multiple PBI tenants but we do not want to maintain local Azure AD accounts to be able to use full functionality of Power BI. Please enable full support for guest accounts in Power BI and allow a guest account to login to a different PBI tenant than the original PBI tenant tied to the primary account in the source AD tenant. Regards

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8a24b845 6e57-4b50-b477-a73062869352 on 06 Jul 2020 00:09:39

RE: Allow Azure AD guest accounts to select Power BI tenant during login

Yes please!

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b522154e 74bb-48e6-be3d-35a17d49a8fd on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:43

RE: Allow Azure AD guest accounts to select Power BI tenant during login

The UI does not support the change so far, therefore the feature request.
I found a workarround:
In the PowerBi.com URL please add the parameter '?ctid='.

This will perform the tenant id change.

e.g. "https://app.powerbi.com/groups/.../reports/.../ReportSection...?ctid="

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b522154e 74bb-48e6-be3d-35a17d49a8fd on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:38

RE: Allow Azure AD guest accounts to select Power BI tenant during login

We are also creating Azure Solutions including PowerBI.com Workspaces and work with AAD B2B.
I can't force PowerBi.com to choose the customers tenant, so I can't collaborate seamlessly (as it is e.g. possible in MS Teams or Azure Portal).
Please implement this professional feature as it is mandatory to use PowerBI as frontend for data solutions for customers.

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e103fa91 792b-4049-8679-6c670499e926 on 06 Jul 2020 00:05:49

RE: Allow Azure AD guest accounts to select Power BI tenant during login

We created a data as a service solution for clients to use but the one question we regularly get is "How do I switch tenant" and we always have to send them the link and tell them to go to the link.

We're literally forcing our users to buy Power BI licenses and sending revenue your way with this solution, so making this easier for them to use would be a HUGE help for our sales.

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a9d2f44f dfce-4b5f-a836-22ac3dde2b28 on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:55

RE: Allow Azure AD guest accounts to select Power BI tenant during login

Cannot stress the importance of this enough!

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14cf1a3e 1e6f-4fe5-8f54-04f3ce303683 on 05 Jul 2020 23:59:06

RE: Allow Azure AD guest accounts to select Power BI tenant during login

This would be a great enhancement over the current method for sharing with external users.

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9244cc6a 9c6b-4918-9723-699aa55faac5 on 05 Jul 2020 23:54:21

RE: Allow Azure AD guest accounts to select Power BI tenant during login

Cannot +1 this enough. If you compare the ease with which reports can be shared internally against the difficulty of access for external users, the gap is huge. It should be possible to access other tenants as a guest by a better method than the original link provided in an email. For guest users familiar with PowerBI in their own orgs, this would make their access to data far smoother, while for guest users unfamiliar with PowerBI, this would remove a barrier to usage.

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02d912eb 01cd-49db-bbf5-7c8fd34a8fc2 on 05 Jul 2020 23:26:53

RE: Allow Azure AD guest accounts to select Power BI tenant during login

This is definitely needed especially mobile access for our clients for the content we create for them to access. Mobile access is a showstopper for B2B. Anon is exactly correct that the current interface for viewing content on another tenant is very rudimentary and confusing even in a desktop environment since they assume they will be able to access via their own Power BI portal. Tenant switching is available throughout Azure and Azure AD Access Panel so it would make sense to extend this capability to the Power BI Service as well.

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260f4c83 1af2-4321-8327-7a97acd9e14d on 05 Jul 2020 23:16:07

RE: Allow Azure AD guest accounts to select Power BI tenant during login

Our large worldwide organization has multiple Azure AD tenants and we are using Azure AD B2B and guest accounts extensively. We have a need to create multiple PBI tenants but we do not want to maintain local Azure AD accounts to be able to use full functionality of Power BI. Please enable full support for guest accounts in Power BI and allow a guest account to login to a different PBI tenant than the original PBI tenant tied to the primary account in the source AD tenant. Regards