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Power BI Error:
AADSTS90084

What does this error mean?

The tenant blocks guest (B2B) accounts from signing in to this application or resource.

Common causes

  • 1User is a B2B guest in the tenant hosting the Power BI workspace, Fabric capacity or data source, while the app/resource is restricted to member accounts only
  • 2External Collaboration / Cross-tenant access settings in Entra ID block guest access to this specific application
  • 3Conditional Access policy targets guests/external users and blocks sign-in to Power BI Service or the Fabric workload
  • 4Service principal or scheduled refresh runs under a guest identity that the resource tenant doesn't accept
  • 5User signed in with their home-tenant account instead of the @resource-tenant guest UPN, hitting a tenant that disallows that federation path

How to fix it

  1. 1Confirm which tenant you're authenticating against — the URL after login.microsoftonline.com/ should be the tenant that owns the Power BI workspace, not your home tenant
  2. 2Sign out completely (login.microsoftonline.com/logout) and sign back in using the guest UPN issued by the resource tenant (e.g. user_homedomain.com#EXT#@resourcetenant.onmicrosoft.com)
  3. 3Ask the resource-tenant admin to verify in Entra ID → External Identities → Cross-tenant access settings that inbound guest access is allowed for Power BI / Fabric (App ID 00000009-0000-0000-c000-000000000000)
  4. 4Check Conditional Access policies in the resource tenant for rules scoped to 'Guest or external users' that block Power BI Service, and add an exclusion if appropriate
  5. 5For unattended refreshes: replace the guest account with a service principal or a member account in the resource tenant — guest accounts are not a supported identity for scheduled refresh on gateways

Frequently asked questions

What does AADSTS90084 mean?

Guest accounts aren't allowed for this site.

How do I fix this error?

Check your application registration, token configuration, and user permissions in the Azure portal. Review Conditional Access policies if the error is policy-related.

Source · learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity-platform/reference-error-codes#aadsts-error-codes

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