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aaronfdsouza
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401 Unauthorized response when fetching an embed token for Power BI

I followed the article listed here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedded/embed-service-principal I then wrote a C# console application that first generates an access token an...
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2 years ago

Hi aaronfdsouza ,

Base on your description, it seems you’re encountering an unauthorized error while fetching an embed token for Power BI using a service principal. Could you please refer the following official documentations and check the following info?

Embed Token - Generate Token - REST API (Power BI Power BI REST APIs) | Microsoft Learn

Embed Power BI content in an embedded analytics application with service principal and an application secret - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

1. Ensure the service principal have the proper permissions

  • Ensure that the service principal (app registration) has the necessary permissions in Azure AD. It should have the "API permissions" for Power BI Service.
  • Enable the Service Principal option in the Power BI Admin Portal
  • Add the service principal to the Power BI workspace security group.

2. Make sure that input the correct info for Organization Tenant ID, Client ID and Secret parameter values

Get the embedding parameter values

3. Check if it hit any following limitations

Considerations and limitations

Best Regards

  • MurugeshPeurmal's avatar
    MurugeshPeurmal
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    20 days ago

    i am also having simuler issue and all  the required rights has been provided. still i am facing an issue . 

    Now from our code we did following below steps:

    1. Get access token from Microsoft entra for service principal - success

    2. Generate token for the report inside the workspace - every time fails here, even with different methods