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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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Anonymous
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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