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tripleacoder
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7 years ago
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Power Bi REST API - 401 Authorization error when using app secret

I have a console app that uses the REST API to get a dataset (and later add rows to it). This works when I supply my own user/password credentials.   Now I have registered the app as a Web/API app ...
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    v-jiascu-msft
    7 years ago

    Hi tripleacoder,

     

    As far as I know, the permissions of Power BI are all based on the users. So an App can't act as a user. Please refer to developer/power-bi-permissions where all the descriptions have "user". 

    Regarding "Tenant.ReadWrite.All", the documentation above also has a description. Actually, these permissions only can retrieve the profiles rather than data. Please refer to admin/reports_getreportsasadmin.

    One simple proof we can see is that even an admin can't access all the App workspaces. The data is the precious asset of a company. I think this is reasonable.

     

     

    Best Regards,
    Dale

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ironmanwk
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6 years ago

My teammate been trying to get REST API to work as well but also encounter the same 401 error message. Is this still an on-going issue or there is a solution we can apply?