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Power Bi REST API - 401 Authorization error when using app secret
Hi tripleacoder,
As far as I know, the permissions of Power BI are all based on the users. So an App can't act as a user. Please refer to developer/power-bi-permissions where all the descriptions have "user".
Regarding "Tenant.ReadWrite.All", the documentation above also has a description. Actually, these permissions only can retrieve the profiles rather than data. Please refer to admin/reports_getreportsasadmin.
One simple proof we can see is that even an admin can't access all the App workspaces. The data is the precious asset of a company. I think this is reasonable.
Best Regards,
Dale
I found this link:
It talks about assigning roles to the app.
I have now granted my app the Contributor role, but only on a Resource group.
It hasn't helped. I think the Poer BI service resides at the Subscription level... that means I will need help from a global admin again.
I had a simliar issue where i could use my own credentials but not the service account and the issue was the service account didnt have a power bi pro license. Not sure if thats the same issue but might be worth looking at
sjc4062 wrote:I had a simliar issue where i could use my own credentials but not the service account and the issue was the service account didnt have a power bi pro license. Not sure if thats the same issue but might be worth looking at
That might be it. But when I go to assign licenses and search for the service principal it does not come up in the results. Not sure if it is getting filtered away because only users and groups are valid, or if it's because I am not an Azure global admin.
