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.
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.
Get authentication details
Ensure you get all the required authentication details based on the authentication method
you want to use:
Admin User
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
You need the client ID, client secret, and tenant ID for your application registered
in the Azure Active Directory.