Can Power BI authentication, embedding etc be done offline?

[sally8953]

Hello,

I'm a student developer and I'm researching on Power BI so please don't mind if I ask silly questions since my knowledge is not great in it.

I had few questions if we deploy our application on customer premises where there is no internet connection. 

1) Is it possible to authenticate the app in azure whether using service principal/master user offline? and does the app have to be authenticated only once or every time the app is to be accessed? Is there a workaround if no?

2) If I recall, in order to embed the report in our application we require access tokens to gain access to the Power BI API. In offline mode would be still be able to generate access tokens and gain access to the Power BI API? any workaround?

3) Regarding capacities, do capacities work even in offline mode? 

If any of you have personal experience in deploying a power bi application on premise offline, would appreciate any workarounds or suggestions. 

Thank you!

[v-rzhou-msft]

Hi @sally8953 ,

Embed for customers support two authentication methods: master user/ service principal. 

As far as I know, the workload that generating embed token should be online. And the embed token's default lifetime is assigned a random value ranging between 60-90 minutes (75 minutes on average).  So each time you want to see the embed report after life range, you need to get the new embed token.

For reference:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedded/embed-tokens?tabs=embed-for-customers

So I suggest that your working Environment should be online instead of offline.

Best Regards,
Rico Zhou

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[sally8953]

Hello @v-rzhou-msft,

Thank you for your reply. 

How about for both embed for customers and organization which uses an Azure AD Token? is that option possible to use offline?