Before you create a catalog source, ensure that you have the information required to connect to the source system.
Perform the following tasks:
•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.