Power BI Report Server Custom-Form Authentication Challenge after implementing Github guideline

[mubin4all]

Hi Team,

I have followe the steps mentioned on below link to configure Power BI Report Server with Custom/Form Authentication on my machine.

https://github.com/Microsoft/Reporting-Services/tree/master/CustomSecuritySample

When configuration completed successfully, i did registration of the user using button Register User.

When i use registerd user for Logon it gave error:

Could not load folder contents

You are not allowed to view this folder. Contact your administrator to obtain the necessary permissions.

I am well aware to do security settings at all the places in Report Manager of Users, when we work with windows authentication.

But for Custom authentication it was not given in the document on Github, how to create user with Administrative access so he can do folder management, security management for rest of the users.

Please do the needful and let me know the next steps to create admin user in form authentication of Power BI Report Server, who can assign various folder view permission to the users exist in User table of UserAccount database .

Regards,

Mubin

[jbclement]

ok found it:

you first have to register one admin user, then add it in rsreportserver.config

        <Configuration>
          <AdminConfiguration>
            <UserName>myadminaccount</UserName>
          </AdminConfiguration>
        </Configuration>

login with that account and authorize other accounts to access and to browse folders.

[fktoye]

  <AdminConfiguration>
            <UserName>myadminaccount</UserName>
          </AdminConfiguration>

add it in   rsreportserver.config

[jbclement]

Hi,

I am having exactly the same problem with forms authentication and power bi server.

Did you find any solutions ?

Thanks

[gyangupta]

We are trying to do similar thing.

We want to call Power BI report from our .net application, which uses Form authentication. We want to capture userid in Power BI report and then filter the data based on user id.