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mbutler71
Advocate I
4 years ago
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Get-PowerBICapacity Doesn't Work

Has anybody gotten this to work in PowerShell? $caps = Get-PowerBICapacity -Scope Organization; I've tried with my account, I'm a Capacity Admin, a service principal, and a generic account t...
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  • Watsky's avatar
    Watsky
    4 years ago

    Hey kerski,

    You have to login first before you can run the command. So your Power Shell should look like this:

    Login-PowerBIServiceAccount 
Get-PowerBICapacity -Scope Individual

     This is as long as you are using the regular public enivronment for Power BI (Non-government cloud).

kerski's avatar
kerski
Advocate II
4 years ago

I have the issue too: 

 

Get-PowerBICapacity : Login first with Login-PowerBIServiceAccount
At line:5 char:1
+ Get-PowerBICapacity -Scope Individual
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-PowerBICapacity], Exception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.Exception,Microsoft.PowerBI.Commands.Capacities.GetPowerBICapacity

  • Watsky's avatar
    Watsky
    Solution Sage
    4 years ago

    Hey kerski,

    You have to login first before you can run the command. So your Power Shell should look like this:

    Login-PowerBIServiceAccount 
Get-PowerBICapacity -Scope Individual

     This is as long as you are using the regular public enivronment for Power BI (Non-government cloud).