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kranthi_sunkara
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4 years ago

Connecting PowerBI from Power Shell without prompting

I am trying to connect powerBI from powershell. I created a service account in azure AD and enabled service prinicipal in powerBI under admin portal. I am using the below commands. $password = "xx...
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kranthi_sunkara
Regular Visitor
4 years ago

I created a certificate thumbprint and passed with other parameters. But I encountered the below error. Is there any specific order for passing the parameters.

Command:

Connect-PowerBIServiceAccount -ServicePrincipal -CertificateThumbprint xxxxxxxxxxx  -ApplicationId xxxxxxxxxxx  -Credential $credential  -TenantId xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Error:
Connect-PowerBIServiceAccount : Parameter set cannot be resolved using the specified named parameters.
At line:1 char:1
+ Connect-PowerBIServiceAccount -ServicePrincipal -CertificateThumbprin ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Connect-PowerBIServiceAccount], ParameterBindingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : AmbiguousParameterSet,Microsoft.PowerBI.Commands.Profile.ConnectPowerBIServiceAccount

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Anonymous
Not applicable
4 years ago

You don't need the -Credential part. That's only if you're using the Application Secret approach. For me I had the following: Connect-PowerBIServiceAccount -ServicePrincipal -CertificateThumbprint XXXXXXXXX -ApplicationId XXXXXX -Tenant XXXXXXXX