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Anonymous
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8 years ago

Cant authenticate as a user with Postman (400 error)

I posted this as a reply in another thred while it should have been a new post, sorry!   So I am trying to use the PBI API via REST requests done by Postman. All of these requests will be done by a...
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Anonymous
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7 years ago

I managed to make it work by asking my azure sysadmin to create a service account and making this account the owner of the app. I dont understand why it would make it different than using my own credentials (with me as owner) but apparently, it does because now I can log via password... 

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NEbdf
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7 years ago

Do you maybe have some more detailed informations regarding that service account and how it is created? I would like to ask my Azure Admin too for that, but might have to point in the right direction. Thanks!

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    Anonymous
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    7 years ago

    AFAIK, the sysadmin registered the powerbi app,  then created a normal user and assigning the user as the owner of the registered PowerBI app, and also granting the permission to the app (something I was not able to do when I was the one registering the app).

     

    Hope it helps