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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

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    kranthi_sunkara
    Regular Visitor
    4 years ago

    No luck for me 😞 Getting error again. Not sure if it needs any permissions.

     

    Connect-PowerBIServiceAccount -ServicePrincipal -CertificateThumbprint xxxx -ApplicationId xxxxxx -Tenant xxxxxxxxxx

     

     

    Connect-PowerBIServiceAccount : One or more errors occurred.
    At line:1 char:1
    + Connect-PowerBIServiceAccount -ServicePrincipal -CertificateThumbprin ...
    + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo : WriteError: (Microsoft.Power...IServiceAccount:ConnectPowerBIServiceAccount) [Connect-Po
    werBIServiceAccount], AggregateException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : One or more errors occurred.,Microsoft.PowerBI.Commands.Profile.ConnectPowerBIServiceAcc
    ount

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      4 years ago

      If you haven't already, you'll need need to install that certificate at either the user level or machine level on the machine that's running that powershell script. My AD guy created a PFX export of the certificate and that was installed on the server that's running my script. I can't speak to how the export was created (that's certainly not my domain) but maybe you do. 

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        kranthi_sunkara
        Regular Visitor
        4 years ago

        I was able to login successfully without popup using the below command. For credentials, I used appid and secret as username and password.

        Connect-PowerBIServiceAccount -ServicePrincipal -Credential $Creds -Tenant $TenantId

         

        But now, I am having issues retrieving the workspace I need. I am trying to retrive my workspace using workspace  id. But I am getting unauthorized error. Does the user I am using should be admin?

        Get-PowerBIWorkspace -Id xxxxxxxxxx

         

        Error:

        Get-PowerBIWorkspace : Operation returned an invalid status code 'Unauthorized'
        At line:1 char:1
        + Get-PowerBIWorkspace -Id xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        + CategoryInfo : WriteError: (Microsoft.Power...owerBIWorkspace:GetPowerBIWorkspace) [Get-PowerBIWorkspace], HttpOperationException
        + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Operation returned an invalid status code 'Unauthorized',Microsoft.PowerBI.Commands.Workspaces.GetPowerBIWorkspace