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Switch accounts and tenants in the portal in the same way as Azure

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Michael Ferris on 2019-06-05 14:26:25

In the same way that the Azure portal allows switching between accounts and directories without logging out, the Power BI portal should enable users to switch between accounts and tenants.

Currently the only way to do this is by logging out which is inconvenient and also logs the user out from any Azure Portal sessions currently active.

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PJ Evans on 2021-11-04 23:58:13

Power BI

Power BI Desktop: Access other PBI Tenant(s)

PBI Desktop should allow via some way/form to log into other PBI tenants using the same account home account. Could even be a tenant.id popup hotkey popup to switch tenants, but this really needs to be in there somewhere. It is crippling our work as users now need to have not only their 'main' ...

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Niels vdc on 2021-06-15 09:59:13

Power BI

Power BI Desktop tenant switch support

As a Power BI consultant I work in different customer tenants daily and I publish reports to these tenants. At this moment I have to sign out in Power BI Desktop and enter an email address and password for the customer's tenant to be able to publish report for this customer. This means that I hav...

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John White on 2019-06-19 02:19:08

Power BI

Allow for simpler account switching between tenants

It is next to impossible to switch between accounts/tenants in the Power BI mobile client. The user must first log out of the existing account/tenant, and then establish a connection with the different tenant. This is a multi-multi step process. Contrast this with the multi tenant capabilities ...

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Trutz-Sebastian Stephani on 2020-06-10 19:00:52

Power BI

Provide a tenant switcher in the Power BI portal for guest access similar to Teams

Just like in Teams, I'd like to be able to switch the tenant to an organisation where my account has been added as a guest account. It's quite tedious to copy/paste the ctid information and add it to each URL

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John White on 2020-04-16 18:35:59

Power BI

Identity Profiles for Power BI Desktop

An increasing number of features are being tied to a user's identity in Power BI Desktop. Live connections to datasets connect to the tenant that is currently logged in. Persistent custom visuals and organizational visuals are tied to it, and even the Most Recently Used list seems to be affected....

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Simon Dignam on 2020-03-11 05:31:23

Power BI

Add an option to select tenant when publishing

Allow multiple tenant users to have the ability/option to select the destination tenant when publishing from desktop

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