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Anonymous

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8 years ago

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Programatically start/stop Azure PowerBI capacity for PowerBI Embedded

With the new start/stop capacity options on Azure for PowerBI, can I start and stop the capacity from a .net app or powershell? I understand that I can pause capacity in the Azure Portal, but would ...

Anonymous
8 years ago
Hi all.

Here is the documentation:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi-embedded/capacities

Here is guide for setting up Postman:
https://www.codit.eu/blog/2017/03/14/authenticate-postman-against-azure-service-management-api/

Wish you well!

Goddamn hate Azure by now though.... hope that changes
asarraf21
6 years ago
I found the REST api documented here. It seems to be working fine.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi-embedded/capacities/suspend
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi-embedded/capacities/resume

Solution Sage

7 years ago

Using PowerShell commands (AzureRM.PowerBIEmbedded) and Azure Runbooks we can also automate things if we want

I've published the runbooks workflow at the below link

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/SuspendResumePBI-Embedded-dd630405

Hope this helps,

Jay