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Anonymous
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7 years ago

How to disable multi factor authentication to use POwer BI REST API

Hi,   I am running a powershell script to get the refresh history of all pbi reports of respective workspaces. Problem: I need to run the script manually, I mention here manually because whenever ...
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Anonymous
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6 years ago

Have you tried using Service Principal/App Registration via AAD? Make sure you assign PowerBI API Permissions for the registration and then you can get an access token for the registration

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piper
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6 years ago

Thanks for reply.

Yes, I had tried out service principal way earlier, when didn't have powerbi pro account. And, it hadn't work earlier.

Which is why, I had purchase powerBI pro.

 

I don't recall the actual error now, but somewhere it was related to not able to generate access token.

 

For now, I got unblocked by disabling multi factor authentication using following:

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Disabling-multi-factor-authentication-for-power-bi/m-p/1087144/highlight/true#M95752