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Hello,
I want to create an admin portal on PowerBI desktop of the whole PowerBI enviroment in our enterprise.
But I am stuck with the refresh token as I get a refresh token only 15 mins, how can I have a fixed token to access or to automatically refresh my access token ?
Hi @MAwwad ,
I have found a similar post, please refer to it to see if it helps you.
Solved: Refresh token api call - Microsoft Power BI Community
I stumbled over a similar problem as you last year. I solved my api connection by buidling a custom data connector.
https://github.com/Microsoft/DataConnectors
With the connector you have a lot of possibilitys for authentication handling:
see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/handlingauthentication
The custom Connector can be attached to the data gatway from there the api calls are made.
Best Regards
Community Support Team _ Polly
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Hi @MAwwad
From the sounds of it what you need to do is to create a Service Principal which can then access the APIs
Here is a blog post on how to do this in the section highlighted below.
Using the Power BI Scanner API to Manage Tenant's Entire Metadata -
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