ADGraphGroupOperationFailed error when creating groups

[brenkehoe]

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 ?

[Ran]

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)

[brenkehoe]

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":[]}}}

[Ran]

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.

[brenkehoe]

[Eric_Zhang]

@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.

[brenkehoe]

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.

[brenkehoe]

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

[Ran]

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

[brenkehoe]

@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 ?

[Ran]

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.

[brenkehoe]

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.

[Ran]

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