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Hey guys. I'm new to PBI (2 days in!) and I need some help using the API to suspend my PBI Embedded A1 Capacity. I want to do this as a back-end function from a web server (no user interaction). I've been testing the POSTs below with Postman....
When I do a POST to Suspend Capacity with this URL...
https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.PowerBIDedicated/capacities/{dedicatedCapacityName}/suspend?api-version=2017-10-01"error": "invalid_grant",
"error_description": "AADSTS65001: The user or administrator has not consented to use the application with ID 'bla bla bla bla'.... Send an interactive authorization request for this user and resource".
"error": {
"code": "AuthorizationFailed",
"message": "The client '80d81297-xxxxxxxxxxx' with object id '80d81297-xxxxxxxxxxx' does not have authorization to perform action 'Microsoft.PowerBIDedicated/capacities/suspend/action' over scope '/subscriptions/3ae6d438-3b19-41ee-acf6-9c4cec5c33ce/resourceGroups/CIOPulse/providers/Microsoft.PowerBIDedicated/capacities/ciopulsepowerbi' or the scope is invalid. If access was recently granted, please refresh your credentials."
}Solved! Go to Solution.
OK, I solved this by:
- Going into my Power BI Embedded Capacity.
- Clicking Access control (IAM).
- Assigning the Role, 'Owner', to my registered application.
If there's a better way, please let me know.
OK, I solved this by:
- Going into my Power BI Embedded Capacity.
- Clicking Access control (IAM).
- Assigning the Role, 'Owner', to my registered application.
If there's a better way, please let me know.
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