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Power Bi REST API - 401 Authorization error when using app secret
I have a console app that uses the REST API to get a dataset (and later add rows to it). This works when I supply my own user/password credentials. Now I have registered the app as a Web/API app ...
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
