Power BI Desktop Repeatedly Prompt for Sign In

[kylesmith877]

We have noticed that all users appear to have to click "Already have a power BI Account? Sign in" and enter their email address each time that they log out and in to a new RDS session.  Once this is done Power BI appears to remember the sign in for the remainder of the session life, until logging off and back on to a new session at which point the process must be completed again.

Power BI Version: 2.54.4970.761 64-bit (January 2018)
RDS Version: Windows Server 2016
Profile Type: User Profile Disks

As suggested by an online forum we updated Power BI to the most current version, but found that the same behavior still occurs.  We have also not found any registry related settings, or configuration file settings that would appear to allow Power BI to remember users and not force them to enter their email address to sign in to Power BI each time they log in to an RDS session.  

Has anyone found any methods that work to get Power BI to remember users, rather than make then click the "Already have a power BI Account? Sign in" link and enter their email address each time that they log in to their session (or log in to their workstation).  

[v-ljerr-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @kylesmith877,

According to this documentation, administrators can use the following registry key to disable the sign-in form. This can also be pushed out using global policies to the entire organization.

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop
valueName: ShowLeadGenDialog

A value of 0 will disable the dialog.

Could you go to check if it works in your scenario? 

Regards

[kylesmith877]

Thank you for the response, it is very much appreciated.  I had not yet stumbled on this documentation.  I will give this a try to see if it does in fact resolve what wee are seeing.