I have seen many posts on this and many solutions - all of which I have tried, including going down a rabbit whole of trying to "silent" install power BI gateway only to find that's not supported anymore!.
This is a common question - surely??
I have a SQL Server hosted on a VM (at substantial SQL server licencing costs) that acts as a data warehouse for my various clients. This SQL server has many Databases - one for each of my clients and very securely set up so that each client cannot see the other client's data.
1) My clients want to use this "publicly internet aware SQL server" within their respective Power BI tenants.
2) Power BI desktop can access the SQL server fine.
3) After publishing the Semantic Model, and trying to set the credentials for the data source, that option is greyed out.
4) Even when you create a cloud data source that connects to the same server and even though it works, this cant be used in the credentials or gateway cloude settings.
5) No I don't mind setting up a gateway (last resort really) for EACH tenant, but you can't install more than one gateway (even though you could have done this with older gateway installs using silent installer and powershell - the latest version of the gateway installer wont allow you to.
So my question is, How can I get these other tenants to refresh the data from this single "SQL server data Source" that is practically "Cloud".
It seems Microsoft are deliberately trying to get you to use the more expensive SQL AZURE (and I mean its way more expensive when your DW gets to be bigger than 2 terrabytyes and you have 40 odd databases.
This is a common question - surely??
I have a SQL Server hosted on a VM (at substantial SQL server licencing costs) that acts as a data warehouse for my various clients. This SQL server has many Databases - one for each of my clients and very securely set up so that each client cannot see the other client's data.
1) My clients want to use this "publicly internet aware SQL server" within their respective Power BI tenants.
2) Power BI desktop can access the SQL server fine.
3) After publishing the Semantic Model, and trying to set the credentials for the data source, that option is greyed out.
4) Even when you create a cloud data source that connects to the same server and even though it works, this cant be used in the credentials or gateway cloude settings.
5) No I don't mind setting up a gateway (last resort really) for EACH tenant, but you can't install more than one gateway (even though you could have done this with older gateway installs using silent installer and powershell - the latest version of the gateway installer wont allow you to.
So my question is, How can I get these other tenants to refresh the data from this single "SQL server data Source" that is practically "Cloud".
It seems Microsoft are deliberately trying to get you to use the more expensive SQL AZURE (and I mean its way more expensive when your DW gets to be bigger than 2 terrabytyes and you have 40 odd databases.