You can configure Admin User and Service Principal authentication types to access Microsoft Azure Analysis Services. Before you configure the authentication, you need to set up your environment and get the authentication details.
Create storage account and configure access
To access Microsoft Azure Analysis Services, follow these steps to set up your environment:
•Ensure that you use one of the following authentication types to authenticate your organization to access the source system:
- Admin User. Required when Microsoft Azure Analysis Services allows user names and passwords for authentication.
- Service Principal. Required when Microsoft Azure Analysis Services uses the Microsoft Entra ID service principal, formerly known as Azure Active Directory, for authentication.
•If you plan to authenticate your organization to the service with a user with administrator privileges, create the user account.
•If you plan to authenticate your organization to the service using service principal authentication, register a Microsoft Entra application and create the service principal.
•To perform Azure Analysis Services server management operations, add the service principal to the server administrators role.
Note: Add the service principal directly to the server administrators role. You can't add a service principal to a security group and then add the security group to the server administrators role.
•Create a connection.
•Create endpoint catalog sources for connection assignment.
Get authentication details
Ensure you get all the required authentication details based on the authentication method you want to use in the connection:
Admin user connection mode
You need the client ID for your application registered in the Azure Active Directory, user name, and password to connect to Microsoft Azure Analysis Services instances.
Service principal connection mode
You need the client ID, client secret, and tenant ID for your application registered in the Azure Active Directory.