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soldous's avatar
soldous
Advocate II
6 years ago

Power BI Admin API with MFA

Hello,

 

I need to access Power BI Amin REST API from c# Azure function for getting PBI audit logs. But there are two issues:

  • my AAD acc with Power BI Administrator right has multi-factor authentication enforced
  • authorization only with service principle has no access to the Admin part of REST API

Is there any way how I can get a token from login.microsoftonline.com with my Acc with MFA?

 

Thank you very much.

 

Need Help

7 Replies

  • Jayendran's avatar
    Jayendran
    Solution Sage
    6 years ago

    Hi soldous ,

     

    I think there is currently no way to solve your problem. You have to disable to MFA to use your credentials for azure functions.

     

    The other workarond for you is, Instead of using your AAD account, you can create a service account with MFA disabled then assign the service account as the PowerBI admin. Then using the service account you can do your business logics in azure functions.

     

    The actual solution we have to wait till powerbi enabled the SPN autentication for PowerBI Admin API's.

    • soldous's avatar
      soldous
      Advocate II
      6 years ago

      Hi Jayendran 

       

      I was afraid of this answer. I can't use a service acc because it's impossible to give admin rights to service acc in our company. 

      • Elia_Milan's avatar
        Elia_Milan
        New Member
        1 year ago

        Hi soldous, have you find a solution for using Power BI Api Rest with MFA?

  • marcio_fornari's avatar
    marcio_fornari
    Resolver I
    6 years ago

    Disable the MFA on Azure Portal.

     

    Azure Active Directory -> Properties -> Manage Security Defaults Link and Disable

    • soldous's avatar
      soldous
      Advocate II
      6 years ago

      It would be nice if the world was so easy. 

       

      I'm not an AAD administrator and MFA is a company policy.

  • mflores's avatar
    mflores
    New Member
    3 years ago

    Good morning, I am having the same  issue witg MFA when I want to see a Power Bi Dahboard from an aplication web. If I have disable MFA I can see the dashboard without problems, but If I enable again MFA I have again the issue.

     

    I read that : "The actual solution we have to wait till powerbi enabled the SPN autentication for PowerBI Admin API's."

     

    Is already there Any solution?

     

    Thank you.