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dom99
Advocate V
6 years ago
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Set Service Principal s Dataset Owner

Hi,   I wonder if someone can help me. I need to set an existing dataset to be owned by a service principal but cant seem to manage it.   the two options I can see are:   1. Manually set it - c...
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  • Jayendran's avatar
    Jayendran
    6 years ago

    Hi dom99 ,

     

    Using powershell it is possible

     

    I already created the entier script and published here

    https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/AzureDevOps-CICD-for-fefd58b8

     

    The powershell scripts looks like

     

    $applicationId = "" 
$clientsec = "" | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force # 
 
$credential = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $applicationId, $clientsec 
Connect-PowerBIServiceAccount -ServicePrincipal -Credential $credential -TenantId "" 
  
 
$workspacename="PowerBI_CICD_PROD" 
$datasetname="AdventureReports" 
##Getworksapce 
 
$workspace =Get-PowerBIWorkspace -Name $workspacename 
 
# GetDataSets 
$DatasetResponse=Invoke-PowerBIRestMethod -Url "groups/$($workspace.id)/datasets" -Method Get | ConvertFrom-Json 
 
 
# Get DataSet 
$datasets = $DatasetResponse.value 
 
     foreach($dataset in $datasets){ 
                if($dataset.name -eq $datasetname){ 
                $datasetid= $dataset.id; 
                break; 
                } 
 
            } 
 
## Take Over DataSet 
 
Invoke-PowerBIRestMethod -Url "groups/$($workspace.id)/datasets/$($datasetid)/Default.TakeOver" -Method Post

     

dom99's avatar
dom99
Advocate V
6 years ago

Hi Jayendran 

 

I've tried your script but unfortunatly the method below fails.

 

Invoke-PowerBIRestMethod

 

 I successfully log in as the service principal and assign the values as required, the script works up until the very end.

 

The error message is:

Invoke-PowerBIRestMethod : One or more errors occurred.
At line:3 char:1
+ Invoke-PowerBIRestMethod -Url "groups/$($workspace.id)/datasets/$($da ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : WriteError: (Microsoft.Power...werBIRestMethod:InvokePowerBIRestMethod) [Invoke-PowerBIR
estMethod], AggregateException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : One or more errors occurred.,Microsoft.PowerBI.Commands.Profile.InvokePowerBIRestMethod

 

Can you help with finding out why its not working? I found your powershell scripts you'd uploaded, very handy to have thank you.

Jayendran's avatar
Jayendran
Solution Sage
6 years ago

Hi dom99 ,

 

  • Make sure that SPN have admin access to your Workspace.
  • Make sure the workspace id ,datasetid are properly passing to the script 

 

After you got the error run the below script

 

Resolve-PowerBIError

Which will gives you the exact error

 

  • dom99's avatar
    dom99
    Advocate V
    6 years ago

    Hi Jayendran 

     

    I read the documentation and turns out the -Body parameter (sometimes called the content) is now required for POST operations.

     

    so the invoke method looks like:

     

    Invoke-PowerBIRestMethod -Url "groups/$($workspace.id)/datasets/$($datasetid)/Default.TakeOver" -Method Post -Body ""

     

    thanks for your help 🙂