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Disabling multi factor authentication for power bi
Hi All,
I am new to power BI, and have purchased power bi pro account for some POC. However, a multi-factor authentication got enabled when I registered my cell/phone number with Azure/PowerBI.
However, now, I am not able to generate the access token for using power BI rest apis. We have written lot of code to automate few things w.r.t power bi, and I don't want all of that to go in vain.
I am getting following msg while generating token:
AADSTS50076: Due to a configuration change made by your administrator, or because you moved to a new location, you must use multi-factor authentication to access '00000009-0000-0000-c000-000000000000'
Can anyone please help how to disable MFA for user?
Hi piper ,
The request requires the user to do multi-factor authentication and then send this new token back to Web API 1 and complete the on-behalf-of flow. MFA was enabled by triggering a rule if some action (e.g. sudden location change) was treated as "risky activity". For an account there is a "moved to a new location" flag that can get set, automatically triggering the need for MFA, even if it was initially off.
Please check the conditional access locations in Azure AD and check if your AAD admin can clear the flag. Disable MFA for the account or configure conditional access to give access to "Global Admin" role.
Please find additional info in the following articles:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/conditional-access-dev-guide
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Best Regards,
Dedmon Dai
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- Hi piper,
maybe you can use a Service Principal to use with automating things around the REST API?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedded/embed-service-principalThanks nickyvv for your response.
Currently, for every new client, we are creating new workspace/group via REST apis. This is required to clone reports to entirely new workspace dedicated for a client.
There are few limitations for using service principal, which are provided on same link which you have shared, like following one:
"Embed for your organization applications can't use service principal."
I am not sure, but with this, I think I won't be able to generate embed token for reports.
I had tried service principal approach in past for powerbi rest api, before going for powerBi pro, and it hadn't work earlier.
I will try it again, and update back.
Meanwhile, do you think if there is any way to either disable MFA or get access token silently with MFA?
Hi piper ,
The request requires the user to do multi-factor authentication and then send this new token back to Web API 1 and complete the on-behalf-of flow. MFA was enabled by triggering a rule if some action (e.g. sudden location change) was treated as "risky activity". For an account there is a "moved to a new location" flag that can get set, automatically triggering the need for MFA, even if it was initially off.
Please check the conditional access locations in Azure AD and check if your AAD admin can clear the flag. Disable MFA for the account or configure conditional access to give access to "Global Admin" role.
Please find additional info in the following articles:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/conditional-access-dev-guide
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Best Regards,
Dedmon Dai
Found a solution. Created a Service account with Power Bi portal admin and have this service account to be excluded from the nightly process that forces the MFA the next day.
Log in to the Power Bi Portal under this service account and recreate the subscription under this login. This is working for my organization so far.
iabrani could you please elaborate on your approach? Why it forces MFA only next day? You mentioned subscriptions? what subscriptions are those? email report export ones?
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