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akarkal
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4 years ago
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Using Service Principal for REST API / Data Refresh

I have a C# App that uses a Active Directory User to perform the following operations, I am trying to convert it to use a Active Directory Service Principal. I am using Power Embedded Workspace with ...
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    akarkal
    4 years ago

    I was able to get this to work after removing the restrictions on the security group from the tenant settings

     

    these are my settings now

    - tenant : api enabled for service principal, no restrictions on security group

    - SP added to workspace as administrator (directly , not via a group)

     

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Anonymous
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4 years ago

Hi akarkal,

Account to your description, it seems like you missed adding the security group that you configure with the service principal as the member of power bi embedded group workspace so that the rest API can't recognize the corresponding authentication.

Please take a look at the following link to know more about these operations:

Embed Power BI content in an embedded analytics application with service principal and an application secret - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

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akarkal
Frequent Visitor
4 years ago

I was able to get this to work after removing the restrictions on the security group from the tenant settings

 

these are my settings now

- tenant : api enabled for service principal, no restrictions on security group

- SP added to workspace as administrator (directly , not via a group)

 

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    Anonymous
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    4 years ago

    Hi akarkal,

    I'm glad to hear you found and share the workaround to resolve the issue. I think they may help if others faced a similar scenario.🙂 
    Regards,

    Xiaoxin Sheng