Permissions

Power BI permissions refresh errors

Permission errors happen when Power BI is blocked from accessing or combining data by privacy levels, Kerberos or SSO delegation, or authorization rules.

The 3 catalogued errors in this category, each with its plain-English cause and fix:

Formula.Firewall: privacy levels cannot be used togetherThe Data Privacy Firewall is blocking combining sources with incompatible privacy levels (Formula.Firewall).
Information is needed in order to combine dataDesktop ignored privacy levels but the service can't combine the sources without them.
Kerberos delegation error (KRB5KDC_ERR_BADOPTION)Kerberos constrained delegation is not configured (the SPN is missing on the gateway service account).

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