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Hi!
I am having some problems setting up an azure application to use as the service principal for accessing PowerBI. I have reviewed other similar issues, but have not been able to determine what I am doing wrong. I've set up my azure application, and am able to create an access token using Paw/Postman, but when I try to use the access token to access the PowerBI APIs, I am struck with a 403. My application has been granted admin access to all PowerBI rest endpoints, I am using the client credentials flow and I am using https://domain/application_id/.default as the scope.
What am I doing wrong? 🤔
Hi @hypere ,
Please refer to the links.
403 Error when trying to access REST API
Power BI REST API gives 403 error
Power BI REST API gives 403 error (User does not have access to group)
Receiving a 'Forbidden (403)' when connecting to Power BI API
Best regards,
Lionel Chen
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