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MAwwad
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Admin Report

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 ?

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Anonymous
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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.

  • Step one: Create parameters for client_id, client_secret, oauth token, search url, username, password
    Step two: a new query with the following

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GilbertQ
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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.

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