topic Re: ADGraphGroupOperationFailed error when creating groups in Developer

ADGraphGroupOperationFailed error when creating groups

brenkehoe — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 10:45:12 GMT

I am trying to create an app workspace (group) using the power bi rest api and recieve the following error:

{"error":{"code":"ADGraphGroupOperationFailed","pbi.error":{"code":"ADGraphGroupOperationFailed","parameters":{},"details":[]}}}

I have tried this using both a domain admin account and normal domain user.

Any ideas ?

Re: ADGraphGroupOperationFailed error when creating groups

Ran — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 11:27:55 GMT

Hello,

Can you share the body of the request?

Also - have you tried doing the same using the PowerBI SDK? (https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-CSharp)

Re: ADGraphGroupOperationFailed error when creating groups

brenkehoe — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 08:04:54 GMT

Request body is:

{
"name": "prm-buildout"
}

I have not used the sdk to try this as it is part of a deployment powershell script using REST. All other power bi calls work including get groups, import reports, set connections etc.

Actual response is:

{"error":{"code":"ADGraphGroupOperationFailed","pbi.error":{"code":"ADGraphGroupOperationFailed","parameters":{},"details":[]}}}

Re: ADGraphGroupOperationFailed error when creating groups

Ran — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 08:20:41 GMT

Please try using the PowerBI SDK for trouleshooting, to make sure you properly construct the request body.

Also - if you can share the response headers, i'll be able to look it up on our side.

Re: ADGraphGroupOperationFailed error when creating groups

brenkehoe — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 09:21:31 GMT

Re: ADGraphGroupOperationFailed error when creating groups

Eric_Zhang — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 09:26:48 GMT

@brenkehoe

I have the same error when testing creating a group via the POST API. What I obeserved is that, meanwhile I'm not able to create a group in Power BI Service as well. The reason can be that the Exchange admin have disabled your permission to create a group, see this thread.

The same API works when I test in my another account with sufficient perssion.

Re: ADGraphGroupOperationFailed error when creating groups

brenkehoe — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 09:49:50 GMT

Not tested today but i did manage to create a workspace / group with the same user account through the power bi website last week. But never had any success using the REST API. I will try with the SDK now to see if the result is the same.

Re: ADGraphGroupOperationFailed error when creating groups

brenkehoe — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 09:57:30 GMT

It does seem to create the workspace / group fine using the SDK with the same user account.

Re: ADGraphGroupOperationFailed error when creating groups

Ran — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:46:59 GMT

Please inspect the request that is being sent from the SDK (e.g. using fiddler) and compare it to the request you manually send

Re: ADGraphGroupOperationFailed error when creating groups

brenkehoe — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 11:36:32 GMT

@Ran I don't seem to see any requests in fiddler when using the SDK. None that carry a request payload anyway. Need any special settings ?

Re: ADGraphGroupOperationFailed error when creating groups

Ran — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 13:15:36 GMT

It depends on how you use the SDK, please use the step described in http://docs.telerik.com/fiddler/Configure-Fiddler/Tasks/ConfigureDotNETApp to setup your calls to go through fiddler.

Re: ADGraphGroupOperationFailed error when creating groups

brenkehoe — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 07:36:18 GMT

I finally got to the bottom of this by looking through the SDK code on github. The problem seems to be caused by not including the content type header.

("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")

The documentation however does not mention this is required from what i can tell: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt784675.aspx

Thanks all for the help with this.

Re: ADGraphGroupOperationFailed error when creating groups

Ran — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 08:18:54 GMT

Thank you for your input, i'll make sure the docuemntation will be fixed.