Workspace Identity Authentication for your Power BI Semantic Models in Microsoft Fabric


When you create a semantic model in Power BI desktop, you typically connect to one or more data sources (regardless of which mode you use, Import or DirectQuery). And naturally, you need to authenticate against those sources. In Power BI Desktop, you can use your own account (Microsoft Entra ID) or perhaps use SQL authentication (if possible).

But how will you authenticate after the semantic model has been published into a Power BI workspace? Surely you can’t keep using your own account, because if your account would ever be disabled, the refresh of the semantic model would stop. You