Desktop shows DOMAIN\user; once published to Power BI's service, a UPN comes back instead. Either way, it identifies whoever is currently viewing.
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Terms in this definition
- Domain
A way of grouping workspaces by area of the business, in support of a data mesh approach. Items take on their workspace's domain, letting you filter the OneLake catalog by it, and certain tenant settings can be passed to domain admins; domains have no effect on access permissions.
- Chat message roles
Labels on chat messages: instructions go under system, the person's input under user, the model's previous answers under assistant, and results returned by a called tool under tool (or function).
- Power BI
Microsoft's analytics and reporting service. It reaches data held on-premises through the on-premises data gateway.
- UPN
User principal name, the user@domain sign-in name of a user. Only domain suffixes verified in the tenant can be used.
Related terms
- Admin user (ACR)
Built-in admin account on a container registry, turned off by default, with one username and two passwords that can be regenerated. It grants full push and pull rights under a single shared identity.
- Deployment credentials
Username and password pairs for local Git and FTP/S on App Service. They use basic authentication and are not Entra identities.
- ROPC
An OAuth 2.0 grant where the app itself takes the username and password. Personal Microsoft accounts, MFA and SSO are all out of reach, and Microsoft advises against using it.